Name: English
Start: 2025-01-03 00:00:00
End: 2025-03-02 23:59:00
Location: Todd Haimes Theatre

Roundabout brings English, by Sanaz Toossi, home to Broadway, after we co-produced its world premiere with Atlantic Theater Company. Knud Adams (Primary Trust) once again directs this Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the universal foibles of language and miscommunication.

The comedy unfolds in an Iranian classroom where adult English learners practice for their proficiency exam. As they leapfrog through a linguistic playground, their wildly different dreams, frustrations, and secrets come to light. Can they overcome the limits of language to discover what they really want to say?

Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes. No intermission.

Elham: Tala Ashe
Goli: Ava Lalezarzadeh
Roya: Pooya Mohseni
Marjan: Marjan Neshat
Omid: Hadi Tabbal
u/s Omid: Joe Joseph
u/s Roya, Marjan: Roxanna Hope Radja
u/s Goli, Elham: Shadee Vossoughi

Playwright: Sanaz Toossi
Director: Knud Adams
Set Design: Marsha Ginsberg
Costume Design: Enver Chakartash
Lighting Design: Reza Behjat
Sound Design: Sinan Refik Zafar
Projection Design: Ruey Horng Sun
Production Stage Manager: Alex H. Hajjar

A man and a woman both sit backwards in student chairs in a classroom set, leaning on the backs of the chairs. He wears a red flannel and she wears a green and black patterned shirt.

A woman with dark brown hair pulled into a low bun stands between school desks in a classroom rehearsal set. She wears a loose gray hoodie over a collared black shirt and pants.

A woman sits between two men behind a rehearsal table cluttered with scripts, pencil cans, and snacks. They smile as they watch a rehearsal unfold.

A woman with long brown hair and dark eyes stands in a classroom set inbetween student desks. Behind her, a whiteboard reads TOEFL.

In a classroom set, a young woman with long, curly black hair stands in front of a whiteboard that says "English Only" and presents to her classmates and teacher.

THEATRE TALK

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Art photography by Meredith Jenks.

English is generously sponsored by Duolingo, Inc. and the Duolingo English Test.

English is made possible by the Champions for Inclusive Theatre and Roundabout’s Forward Fund. We acknowledge the generous friends who support our many efforts to increase representation and inclusion in all aspects of theatre: Elizabeth Armstrong, Bank of America, Eugene and Joann Bissell and the Lillian Lincoln Foundation, Kevin Brown, Barbara and Peter Bye, Ginger McKnight Chavers, Ford Foundation, Jill and Barry Lafer, Gina Maria Leonetti, Iva Mills, Beryl Snyder, Denise Littlefield Sobel, and Liz and Ken Whitney.