The smash-hit Tony-nominated play, which is in fascinating conversation with Miller, makes its UK premiere at the Royal Court ...

It is 2018, spring semester, junior year, at Helen County High, the only high school “in a one-stoplight town”—that may soon acquire a second stoplight, we learn—in northeast Georgia. In the opening ...

“John Proctor Is the Villain,” the title of Kimberly Belflower’s Tony-nominated play, has a strong polemical ring. Before seeing the work, I assumed that the author was picking a fight with Arthur ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beth (a tender and hilarious Fina Strazza) is our passionate yet unsure Mary Warren; the faithful but betrayed Raelynn (Amalia Yoo, subtle and sincere) acts as an adolescent Goody Proctor; and Shelby ...

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 ...