Jan 3, 2025 · Buy tickets to the Pulitzer Prize winning play, English on Broadway, written by Sanaz Toossi and directed by Knud Adams.

Jan 24, 2025 · 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 ...

English is a play by Sanaz Toossi. The play explores themes of language, identity, and cultural assimilation, set in an English-language classroom in Karaj, Iran, in 2008. The play won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [1]

Mar 20, 2022 · Two words set in motion award-winning playwright Sanaz Toossi’s intricate and profound New York debut: “English Only.” This is the mantra that rules one classroom in Iran, where four adult students are preparing for the TOEFL — the Test of …

Two words set in motion award-winning playwright Sanaz Toossi’s intricate, hilarious and profound New York debut: “English Only.” This is the mantra that rules one classroom in Iran, where four adult students prepare for the TOEFL — the Test of English as a Foreign Language.

Feb 22, 2022 · How our mother tongue gives us voice yet limits our world — and how a new tongue expands that world yet may strangle our voice — is the subject of “English,” a rich new …

Jul 28, 2023 · It's 2008 and four Iranians assemble triweekly in a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) class in Karaj Iran. The students are led by Marjan an anglophile who …

Jan 24, 2025 · For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly free.

A quietly powerful play about four Iranian adults preparing for an English language exam in a storefront school near Tehran, where family separations and travel restrictions drive them to learn a new language that may alter their identities and also represent a new life.

Four adult classmates grapple with learning English as a foreign language. As they attempt to perfect their accents, pronunciation and vocabulary, they realise that there is more to their lives than can ever be uttered through language. This comic and deeply moving play by Sanaz Toossi won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2023.