Over six weeks in 2008, as four Farsi-speaking adults at a small school in Iran prepare for the Test of English as a Foreign Language, or Toefl, they and their teacher struggle with the often ...

While the action moves in a realistic register, Toossi captures the bilingual quality of the text with a neat theatrical device: when characters speak English, they have an accent, either light or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike casual language learners — say, in a high school French class, or on Duolingo — for the characters in Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning “English,” language acquisition feels imperative.

Aptly titled “English,” Toossi’s one-act play opened Thursday at Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre after a run in 2022 at Off Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company. In between those two ...

Thanks to centuries of imperialism, if that language happened to be English, convincing people you’re not an idiot is a steep uphill battle. How we sound to others, and to ourselves, isn’t ...

Sanaz Toossi began writing “English,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, now at the Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre, as her graduate-school thesis. The play, a portrait of an English ...