By Sanaz Toossi
Directed By Hamid Dehghani
“English Only.” This one rule governs language instructor Marjan’s classroom, where she teaches four adult students outside of Tehran. Together, they leapfrog through a linguistic playground, chasing fluency through a maze of word games, listening exercises, and show-and-tell sessions. They hope that one day English will make them whole. But it might be splitting each of them in half.
Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning English is a disarmingly funny and tender play about the foibles of language and miscommunication. Make sure you’re marked as “present” for a work Variety calls “undeniably one of the best plays of the decade,” when it makes its Denver debut in spring 2026.
Hands down a masterpiece of theater.
– Variety
Show Resources:
Buell Theatre
MAP
Singleton Theatre
MAP
Kilstrom Theatre
MAP
Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex
MAP
Wolf Theatre
MAP
Randy Weeks Conservatory Theatre
MAP
Garner Galleria Theatre
MAP
Play, Comedy
Approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes with no intermission
No
May 12, 20, & 28
ASL-Interpretation & Audio Description: May 3
Adult language.
Recommended for ages 13+.
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By arrangement with Fiery Angel Limited
THE 39 STEPS
Adapted by Patrick Barlow
From the novel by John Buchan
From the movie by Alfred Hitchcock
Licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited
And an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon
Raul Abrego
Raquel Barreto
Carolina Ortiz Herrera
Melanie Chen Cole
Alex Basco Koch
and
John Erickson
Xiomara Cornejo
Grady Soapes, CSA
and
Bass/Valle Casting
Jerry Ruiz
