Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: It was the Muslim travel ban imposed by the U.S. government in early 2017 that prompted playwright Sanaz Toossi to write “English” in ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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

As someone who takes four classes a week in four different foreign languages — it had been my way of getting through the pandemic — the subject of Sanaz Toossi’s new play not only struck a ...

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 forced cultural denial.

Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Sanaz Toossi, has come to Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Todd Haimes Theatre.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly free.

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 ...

It was the Muslim travel ban imposed by the U.S. government in early 2017 that prompted playwright Sanaz Toossi to write “English” in the first place. “I was furious and I was devastated,” she said on ...