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

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 ...

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

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

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 away, leaving something ...

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 ...

English” playing at the Todd Haimes Theatre on W 42nd Street is mediocre at best, currently playing at the Roundabout Theatre.

Demerits follow any student who lapses back into Farsi. There might be good pedagogical reasons for that, playwright Sanaz Toossi is saying, but it’s also a kind of forced cultural denial.

In this classroom, only English is spoken. The teacher, Marjan (Marjan Neshat), enforces this rule harshly — if you speak any other language, you get a tally mark. At five tallies, you are asked to ...

Steven Soderbergh’s camera assumes the role of a specter haunting a teenager and her family in his latest, “Presence.” Here’s ...