Nazanin Nour plays a teacher of English as a second language and Babak Tafti is one of her students in Iran in “English” at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Mass. The play ran off-Broadway in ...

PITTSFIELD, MASS. – Many people have a rather arrogant attitude towards language. They get annoyed when visiting a foreign country if no one understands them when they speak their own language. Yet ...

Narrator: Conflict comes in many shapes and sizes. It’s there as we wrestle with our conscience over a difficult dilemma. It’s there when we stand up for what we believe in, and it can lead to ...

PITTSFIELD — “Why do we learn language?” a fluent English-speaking Iranian teacher named Marjan asks at the opening of Sanaz Toossi’s 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “English.” “To bring the inside ...

Narrator: On the face of it, Shakespearean society was traditional and old-fashioned. Men were in power - as they were, of course, the only ones capable of making important decisions - and women ...