Questions of identity, belonging and understanding are woven through "English," Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer-winning drama, which is making its Broadway premiere.
Whether this ability to transform—both to mutate itself and to promise transformation and, thereby, opportunity to its speaker—is a gift of the English language or a reminder of its use as a tool of ...
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 ...
Few are the standout gems—those plays that conquer an audience so wholly you feel a delicious two-way crackle in the room as a performance progresses. Sanaz Toossi’s English, which opened tonight on ...
Controversial Gospel singer and evangelist Diana Asamoah, from Ghana, recently announced that she will only sing in English moving forward. She has established her reputation as a singer of the Twi ...
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 ...
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 ...
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