An event celebrating Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian communities in honor of Sanaz Toossi's world premiere play, English. A post-show panel discussion centered around what rep…
Camila Brugés was born into this industry, coming from a family of theatremakers and film/TV stars, there was only one way she was going to walk through life: through the arts. 🔥 In…
ENGLISH Written by Sanaz Toossi Directed by Knud Adams featuring Tala Ashe, Ava Lalezarzadeh, Pooya Mohseni, Marjan Neshat, and Hadi Tabbal Through March 20 ONLY! Tickets available: htt…
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The original dance-theater work by Migguel Anggelo chronicles an immigrant caterpillar's quest for the 'American Dream.'
(Alexandra Schwartz's article appeared in The New Yorker, 2/28/22;Â In Toossi's play, four Iranian students become friends or rivals in an English class.Illustration by Sophi Miyoko Gullb…
Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company, fresh from the triumph of the musical 'Kimberly Akimbo,' stages another winner.
You may have never thought about it before but you are defined by your language. Your identity is shaped by the words you have and the words you don't. You can say certain things in one lang…
By: David Sheward February 27, 2022: Our relationship with language is the subject of Sanaz Toossi's perceptive new play English, presented in a taut and affecting production by Knud Adam…
By Samuel L. Leiter February 27, 2022: Anyone who's ever struggled to master a foreign language in private classes will find something to appreciate in English,Sanaz Toossi's fitfully amus…
There have been so many voices absent from the American stage that sometimes we don't even know what we've been missing until we suddenly hear it. English, the deceptively simple play by San…
By Marilyn Lester . . . There's a well-known expression, "a picture is worth a thousand words." Similarly, the word "English," the title of a superlative new play by first-generation Iranian…
Listen: Lauren Class Schneider talks to Ava Lalezarzadeh, from "English" playing off-Broadway at the Linda Gross Theater. Class notes actively covers New York's current theater season on,…
Akram Khan's new ballet features Jeffrey Cirio as the central character Creature. It is unclear if Creature is a man, a monster or some hybrid of the two.
Learn more about the history of the production and its creators through a lively discussion with Roundabout Teaching Artists. Two words set in motion playwright Sanaz Toossi's intricate and…
Beautifully directed by Knud Adams with welcome touches of levity and cultural humor...
In 2003, the Mint produced Lawrence's 1913 drama The Daughter-in-Law; in 2009, it was the bleaker The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. Now they return to The Daughter-in-Law, a strange and compelli…
In a rich new play by Sanaz Toossi, four Iranians and their language teacher find second selves in a second tongue.
.@itsnumberjuan calls English at @AtlanticTheater & @roundaboutnyc "an outstanding play that compellingly examines the weight of language on those burdened with carrying more than one."h…
★★★★☆ A smart cast, under Knud Adams' smart direction, speak in two tongues but both English The post English: Playwright Sanaz Toossi Looks at Language in So M…
When four adult students enroll in a six-week course to prepare to take the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) in 2008 Karaj, Iran, issues arise that lead them and their teacher t…
★★★☆☆ Sanaz Toosi's play concerns a group of adult Iranian students attempting to learn English. The post English: Lost in Translation appeared first on New Yo…
Cross-cultural tension looms over Sanaz Toossi's English, an understated classroom dramedy about the things we lose in crossing linguistic borders.Â
After the performance on February 15, longtime friend of Atlantic, Arian Moayed ("Succession," Guards at the Taj) moderated a discussion between Sanaz Toossi (playwright), Knud Adams (direct…
Alice Fearn and Mark Dugdale from the West End cast of Come From Away, talk us through a few of those famous Newfoundland phrases! #Theatre