English Tickets

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the most acclaimed plays of 2022, English, written by Iranian American playwright Sanaz Toossi, comes to Broadway in 2024 following its world premiere with Roundabout Theatre Company and Atlantic Theater Company. English tickets will be available on New York Theatre Guide soon.

English is a play that takes place in an Iranian classroom. A group of four adult students are preparing to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language, or the TOEFL. The classroom’s one rule is that they may only speak English. The idea excites them, and they test their skill throughout the play through word games, listening practice, and show-and-tell. They hope learning English will “make them whole,” but they risk losing their connection to their native tongue in the process, creating a gap between their English-speaking and Farsi-speaking selves.

Toossi premiered a one-act play during Atlantic’s Middle Eastern MixFest in 2018, curated by Mona Mansour and Heather Raffo. Three years later, Atlantic produced English off Broadway in Toossi’s full-length professional debut as a playwright. English won a place on the 2019 Kilroys List and was an L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award winner. Following its Off-Broadway premiere, the show earned widespread critical acclaim, a 2022 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Play, a 2023 Obie Award for Best New American Play, and the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Drama Desk Award-nominated director Knud Adams, who staged the play's world premiere, returns for English on Broadway. Both he and Toossi are making their Broadway debuts.

Tickets to English in New York will be available soon.