Sanaz Toossi ’s five-character ensemble drama/comedy “ English ” is about the precision of describing things exactly and using language in its clearest and most efficient manner. Its real power, however, comes from showing us how we also communicate through our emotions.

Its characters can be anxious, annoyed, upset, smug, resentful, suspicious and incensed. We celebrate watching them succeed but the path to those successes, and the choices they make in their personal lives, are much more interesting.

The play, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama , is opening the 2025-26 season at TheaterWorks Hartford , where its run has been extended through Nov. 8. The same production, directed by Arya Shahi, will also be brought back a few months from now by New Haven’s Long Wharf Thea

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