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, contemplative, and rather glamorous, she tells me that her cast is “just the most beautiful,

English,” Sanaz Toossi’s strikingly thoughtful and moving new Broadway play at the Roundabout Theatre, lexplores what you give up when you express yourself in a tongue not

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

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 after its Off Broadway bow garnered critical raves and regional stagings won over audiences with its unfailing wit, grace and compassion.

Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play English, directed by Knud Adams, is officially open at the Todd Haimes Theatre. Watch highlights from the show in this video!

Pulitzer Prize winner Sanaz Toossi’s play about a group of Iranians studying for the Test of English as a Foreign Language transfers to Broadway in an impeccable production.

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