I hate when we use the word family in theater, but I do make an exception for them,” Toossi tells me of that group. Funny, ...

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

Whether this ability to transform—both to mutate itself and to promise transformation and, thereby, opportunity to its ...

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

The West Coast premiere of “Wish You Were Here” at South Coast Repertory represents a homecoming of sorts for author Sanaz Toossi. A first-generation Iranian American who grew up in Orange County, she ...

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 ...

Middle Eastern representation is notably scarce in New York. ”English” and ”A Knock on the Roof" seeks to change that.

“Wish You Were Here is playwriting at its finest. A gem crafted by Orange County native Sanaz Toossi, and a beautiful addition to our season of work,” Ivers said. “Audiences can expect to ...

English,” Sanaz Toossi’s strikingly thoughtful and moving new Broadway play at the Roundabout Theatre, lexplores what you ...

The West Coast premiere of “Wish You Were Here,” which opened this past weekend on the Julianne Argyros stage, continues this exploration. It’s an impressionistic and heartfelt inspection of the ties ...

Playwright Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize winning play makes its Broadway debut in a moving, thought-provoking production.