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 ...

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 ...

The West Coast premiere of “Wish You Were Here” at South Coast Repertory represents a homecoming of sorts for author Sanaz Toossi. A first-generation Iranian American who grew up in Orange ...

Sanaz Toossi doesn’t know quite how to feel when we speak in early November. On the one hand, the 33-year-old playwright’s fleet and heartfelt drama English—about a group of people (parents ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...