Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK — Every high school kid knows Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” the allegorical play seemingly about the Salem witch trials ...

Even before audiences take their seats, while making their way into the JMAC BrickBox Theater they'll be met with a most unsettling sight: Prisoners huddled in a mass of straw, some with eyes vacant ...

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 ...

The Salem Witch trials have, many times over, proven themselves near unbreakable as allegory, starting at least with Arthur Miller’s 1953 The Crucible, in which the goings on in Massachusetts Bay ...

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 ...

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 ...