It was the Muslim travel ban imposed by the U.S. government in early 2017 that prompted playwright Sanaz Toossi to write ...

The other choice is chaos — let the students run the classroom and no one learns. “English” explores the tyranny, but fudges the chaos. Left unexplained is how one incompetent student eventually aces ...

Whether this ability to transform—both to mutate itself and to promise transformation and, thereby, opportunity to its ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in an E.S.L. classroom in Iran, examines the internal displacements of learning a ...

all English all the time. Demerits follow any student who lapses back into Farsi. There might be good pedagogical reasons for that, playwright Sanaz Toossi is saying, but it’s also a kind of ...

But Sanaz Toossi’s “English,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2023, confounds any such preconceptions. A delicate, buoyant comedy about a small group of adults studying the ...

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Few are the standout gems—those plays that conquer an audience so wholly you feel a delicious two-way crackle in the room as ...

All of those threads are deftly woven through “English,” an intimate yet profoundly resonant drama by Sanaz Toossi. The exquisite Broadway production from director Knud Adams is the first must ...

The first thing one is likely to notice about the four women introduced in Sanaz Toossi’s “English,” now making its Broadway debut, is their accents. Ms. Toossi’s play, set inside a classroom at the ...

Sanaz Toossi has written 1 shows including English (Playwright). What awards has Sanaz Toossi been nominated for? Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Wish You Were Here, Pulitzer Prize for ...