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DETROW: Wow. LUNDEN: ..."Purpose," by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins - that's kind of the front-runner - and "English" by Sanaz Toossi. But in the musicals category, there are three shows that picked up 10 ...
The incredible Lebanese actor Hadi Tabbal just finished the monumental Broadway run of Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play English. He originated the role of Omid, and performed in various ...
Sanaz Toossi and Marjan Neshat discuss the notably timed Broadway opening of "English" on Broadway.
It was the Muslim travel ban imposed by the U.S. government in early 2017 that prompted playwright Sanaz Toossi to write “English” in the first place. “I was furious and I was devastated,” she said on ...
Pulitzer Prize winner Sanaz Toossi’s play about a group of Iranians studying for the Test of English as a Foreign Language transfers to Broadway in an impeccable production.
Ms. Toossi’s play, set inside a classroom at the Iranian city of Karaj in 2008, is performed almost entirely in its titular language, but the actors speak unaccented English only when their characters ...
"English," Sanaz Toossi's strikingly thoughtful and moving new Broadway play at the Roundabout Theatre, lexplores what you give up when you express yourself in a tongue not fundamentally your own.