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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vaneh Assadourian as Goli in Alley Theatre's production of 'English.' (Melissa Taylor) With a strong ensemble cast and an ...

Left to right: Shadee Vossoughi (Goli), Pej Vahdat (Omid), Nikki Massoud (Elham) and Roxanna Hope Radja (Marjan) in "English" at the Guthrie Theater. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to ...

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 ...

Set in a prep classroom to teach English to pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language, four students struggle with both the language and their individual reasons for wanting to learn English and ...

You might expect a play set in the repressive and oppressive culture of Iran in 2008 to be a grim portrait of blighted lives and occluded spirits. But Sanaz Toossi’s “English,” which won the Pulitzer ...

Absolutely nothing gets lost in the translation of Sanaz Toossi’s English as the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a group of Iranians longing for the West finally makes its Broadway debut, two years ...

A new FX sitcom handles the educational culture wars with a light touch. By James Poniewozik The culture war often doesn’t have a physical frontline; it’s fought in op-ed columns, through social-media ...