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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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But the strikingly thoughtful and moving new Broadway play at the Roundabout Theatre, the Pulitzer Prize-winning “English,” looks at multilingualism from a different angle. It’s exploring ...

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 ...

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.

A roast chicken is a singularly British thing. Chickens have been roasted, and the remainders in the pan turned into gravy, since at least the 15th century, and of course during the Empire era ...