Marsha Ginsberg’s rotating box of a set for “English” offers changing perspectives on action at the Todd Haimes Theater in Manhattan.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times The theme is ...

Unlike casual language learners — say, in a high school French class, or on Duolingo — for the characters in Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning “English,” language acquisition feels imperative.

Mr. Dalrymple, a retired doctor, is a contributing editor of City Journal and The New English Review. He is the author of False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in ...

But the strikingly thoughtful and moving new Broadway play at the Roundabout Theatre, the Pulitzer Prize-winning “English,” looks at multilingualism from a different angle. It’s exploring ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in an E.S.L. classroom in Iran, examines the internal displacements of learning a language.