Review: In ‘English,’ Looking for a Language to Live In
For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly free.
‘English’ Broadway Review: Something Gets Lost in the Translation
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 her TOEFL. Also weakly explained is why another student, proficient in English, takes this class.
‘English’ Review: Pulitzer Winner Debuts on Broadway at the Top of the Class
Playwright Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize winning play makes its Broadway debut in a moving, thought-provoking production.
Video: Scenes from ENGLISH on Broadway
Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play English, directed by Knud Adams, is officially open at the Todd Haimes Theatre. Watch highlights from the show in this video!
‘English’: The Broadway Play Everyone Needs to See Right Now
Few are the standout gems—those plays that conquer an audience so wholly you feel a delicious two-way crackle in the room as a performance progresses. Sanaz Toossi’s English, which opened tonight on Broadway at the Todd Haimes Theatre (to March 2) in a co-production with the Roundabout Theatre Company,
‘English’ Review: Language and Limits in a Broadway Play
Sanaz Toossi’s buoyant, Pulitzer-winning drama follows a group of Iranians learning English, highlighting the desires and circumscribed circumstances that have brought them to the class.
Review: ‘English’ Speaks Eloquently of Language and Loss
Pulitzer Prize winner Sanaz Toossi’s play about a group of Iranians studying for the Test of English as a Foreign Language transfers to Broadway in an impeccable production.
‘English’ Broadway Review: Pulitzer Winner Lives Up To Expectations In Superb Production
Absolutely nothing gets lost in the translation of Sanaz Toossi’s English as the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a group of Iranians longing for the West finally makes its Broadway debut, two years after its Off Broadway bow garnered critical raves and regional stagings won over audiences with its unfailing wit,
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Sanaz Toossi’s “English” Comes to Broadway
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in an E.S.L. classroom in Iran, examines the internal displacements of learning a ...
Freedom in Speech: Sanaz Toossi’s English
Whether this ability to transform—both to mutate itself and to promise transformation and, thereby, opportunity to its ...
Testing Ground: Sanaz Toossi Brings Her Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play English to Broadway
I hate when we use the word family in theater, but I do make an exception for them,” Toossi tells me of that group. Funny, ...
This play about learning English is a timely and brilliant must-see
Questions of identity, belonging and understanding are woven through “English,” Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning drama, which ...