Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Julieta Cervantes It is 2018, spring semester, junior year, at Helen County High, the only high school “in a one-stoplight ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “John Proctor Is the Villain,” the title of Kimberly Belflower’s Tony-nominated play, has a strong polemical ring. Before seeing ...

When the torrent of #MeToo allegations against powerful men began cascading in the fall of 2017, playwright Kimberly Belflower felt “rocked.” Not only did the revelations of sexual assault and ...

Most of us have read Arthur Miller’s tale of the Salem Witch Trials in “The Crucible,” but what if the character who we thought was the hero is actually the villain in hindsight? That’s the premise of ...

What if the virtuous John Proctor, the hero of Arthur Miller’s acclaimed play “The Crucible” about the Salem witch trials, is not the hero? That thought, raised by a teenage girl in a rural Georgia ...

LONDON (AP) — It’s a long way from Middle Earth to 17th-century Massachusetts, but Richard Armitage has made the journey — and found a surprising link. The British actor — dwarf warrior Thorin ...

Virtually no high school English course in the United States is immune to the study of The Crucible, Arthur Miller's 1953 play that used the Salem witch trials as an allegory for McCarthyism's hunt ...

The first word spoken in “John Proctor Is the Villain” is “sex,” a portent of things to come. Mr. Smith (Gabriel Ebert), a high school English teacher, has been tasked with handling sex-ed for his ...

correctionAn earlier version of this story misquoted playwright Kimberly Belflower. Recounting a conversation she had with her father about “The Crucible,” Belflower recalled that it was she, not he, ...

2025 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Direction of a Play Danya Taymor 2025 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play Amalia Yoo 2025 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Lighting Design of a ...

On the surface, the story of The Crucible is hardly one that feels connected to our modern day. A story embroiled in fear, paranoia, and mob mentality, Arthur Miller's play follows the events of the ...

Sadie Sink and Amalia Yoo perform in "John Proctor is the Villain." (Courtesy of Julieta Cervantes) What if the virtuous John Proctor, the hero of Arthur Miller’s acclaimed play "The Crucible" about ...