The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in an E.S.L. classroom in Iran, examines the internal displacements of learning a ...
Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanaz Toossi, who grew up in Orange County, has a homecoming of sorts with the West Coast premiere of ...
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, ...
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 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 ...
“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 ...
Roundabout Theatre Company's brings its production of Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, English, directed by Knud ...
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 ...