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 ...

“Sometimes I think you can only speak one language,” says a character in Sanaz Toossi’s English. “You can know two, but…” She trails off, her brows knitted and her eyes far ...

The first thing one is likely to notice about the four women introduced in Sanaz Toossi’s “English,” now ... Participating in a course designed for advanced learners of English, Ms. Toossi’s ...

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

I can empathize. 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 ...

Tipping Point Theatre's (TPT) 17th theatrical season continues on March 12th with English, by Sanaz Toossi, another Michigan ...

All of those threads are deftly woven through “English,” an intimate yet profoundly resonant drama by Sanaz Toossi ... not otherwise experience. Toossi’s characters ask big, searching ...

Absolutely nothing gets lost in the translation of Sanaz Toossi’s English as the Pulitzer Prize ... each of the actors adopts a broken English style of speech when the characters are attempting their ...

the native language of all the characters onstage. Neshat also highlights Toossi’s serious work ethic. “I think Sanaz wrote a play during tech for ‘English,'” Neshat said with a laugh.