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

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

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 ...

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

Pulitzer Prize winner Sanaz Toossi’s play about a group of Iranians studying for the Test of English as a Foreign Language ...

Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play English, directed by Knud Adams, is officially open at the Todd Haimes Theatre.

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. Set in ...

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.

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 ...