ENGLISH Plays Final Broadway Performance
English opened at the Todd Haimes Theatre on January 23, 2025.
By: Sidney Paterra Mar. 02, 2025
Today, March 2, 2025, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play English by Sanaz Toossi and directed by Knud Adams plays its final performance at the Todd Haimes Theatre following 21 previews and 45 regular performances.
The Broadway premiere of English featured the original cast from the off-Broadway world premiere: Tala Ashe as “Elham,” Ava Lalezarzadeh as “Goli,” Pooya Mohseni as “Roya,” Marjan Neshat as “Marjan,” and Hadi Tabbal as “Omid.”
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?
Toossi, Adams as well as the whole cast made their Broadway debuts and returning to this production following English’s world premiere co-production between Roundabout Theatre Company and Atlantic Theater Company in 2022. In addition to Toossi winning the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this production won the 2023 Obie Award for Best New American Play.
The creative team for English included: Marsha Ginsberg (Set Design), Enver Chakartash (Costume Design), Reza Behjat (Lighting Design), and Sinan Refik Zafar (Sound Design).
