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, ...

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

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

Questions of identity, belonging and understanding are woven through “English,” Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning drama, which ...

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

Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanaz Toossi, who grew up in Orange County, has a homecoming of sorts with the West Coast premiere of ...

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 ...

“Sometimes I think you can only speak one language,” says a character in Sanaz ... even hers. English isn’t the only play to employ this particular language trick, but Toossi’s handling ...

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.

Roundabout Theatre Company's brings its production of Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, English, directed by Knud ...