HARTFORD, Conn. — Modest hopes, dreams and ambitions play out over the course of six weeks in a classroom in Karaj, a provincial capital in Iran, in Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ...

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 ...

PITTSFIELD — “Why do we learn language?” a fluent English-speaking Iranian teacher named Marjan asks at the opening of Sanaz Toossi’s 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “English.” “To bring the inside ...

I can empathize. As someone who takes five classes a week in three different foreign languages – it has been my way of getting through the pandemic – the subject of Sanaz Toossi’s new play not only ...

Brian Jordan Alvarez's FX comedy stars Alvarez as an English teacher in suburban Texas trying to make a difference and stay afloat. Evan Marquez (Brian Jordan Alvarez) is going through it. The high ...

Subject: The Review: The end of the English major -- or is it? I spoke with Blackwood and with Joseph Rezek, an associate professor of English at Boston University, about the future of the major. Our ...

While the action moves in a realistic register, Toossi captures the bilingual quality of the text with a neat theatrical device: when characters speak English, they have an accent, either light or ...

There is a risk that English Teacher, the fantastic new FX comedy series from Brian Jordan Alvarez, could be reduced to merely being a show both of and for our present moment. On the one hand, this is ...

I can empathize. 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 ...

In a rich new play by Sanaz Toossi, four Iranians and their language teacher find second selves in a second tongue. By Jesse Green If you’ve ever tried, as an adult, to learn a new language, you know ...