The play was also inspired, Toossi said, “by a lifetime of seeing people treat my parents, who speak English as a second language, as lesser-than because they had accents, and the way that they were ...

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The Broadway transfer of Sanaz Toossi’s “English,” which opened on Thursday at the Todd Haimes Theater, is the consummate consommé. Even more so than when it debuted Off Broadway in 2022, and won the ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — Modest hopes, dreams and ambitions play out over the course of six weeks in a classroom in Karaj, a provincial capital in Iran, in Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ...

Marjan Neshat had never worked with playwright Sanaz Toossi before reading the script for “English,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama now playing on Broadway. Still, the Iranian-born actor felt an ...

Let's begin with the biggest question mark of this year's Tony Awards: Which playwright is going to win the prize for Best Play? On paper, before the 2024-25 season barely got started, it looked like ...

Overall, I'd give Sanaz Toossi's "English," set in an Iranian ESL class and now playing at the Berkeley Rep, a solid B. But three of its cast members deliver A-plus performances that elevate the ...

An eclectic film lineup that inspired "Nosferatu" and Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play round out our picks for the weekend of Feb. 7. Writing to you from Atlanta, where members of the EW ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play “English” opened on Broadway just days after Donald Trump took office for the second time — which was notable timing for a show that had it roots in the early days of ...