Plunging into the frenzy of the Salem witch trials, Miller’s forensic 1953 dissection of mass hysteria and persecution (written in the shadow of McCarthyism) is, dismayingly, always relevant. Right ...

Ola Ince directs Arthur Miller’s bombastic allegorical tragedy as if it was a storyline in ‘The Archers’ – with surprisingly ...

Arthur Miller’s 1953 play is a bona fide modern classic, its study of hysteria and herd behaviour – filtering the paranoia of mid-20th century McCarthyism through the Salem Witch Trials in ... A good ...

Playwright Kimberly Belflower and director Danya Taymor reveal how the Tony-nominated play 'John Proctor Is the Villain' made it to Broadway, with help from 'Stranger Things' star Sadie Sink and pop ...

Miller wrote The Crucible with a sense of urgency ... see a parallel between the events of 1692 Salem and the Hollywood witch hunt then being played out in contemporary America, in his words ...

At least since the time of Aristotle, catharsis has been understood as one of the chief purposes of theater, but it’s been a ...

Their dynamic soon brings about accusations akin to the Crucible. ‘I Am Not a Witch’ (2017) Maggie Mulubwa in I am not a witch, 2017. (Alamy ) Eight-year-old Shula lives in an African village ...

Kimberly Belflower, the writer of the Tony-nominated play “John Proctor Is the Villain,” starring Sadie Sink, admires doll ...

“The Crucible” is commonly interpreted as a reenactment based on the historical events of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-93. “The playwright, Arther Miller, traveled to Salem to do thorough ...

But to experience the totality of the play, it's necessary to resist a natural impulse: Both "The Crucible" and the Salem Witch Trials have come to mean anything someone wants it to mean including ...

Their dynamic soon brings about accusations akin to the Crucible. Eight-year-old Shula lives in an African village where she is accused of witchcraft. Sent away, she is taken to a traveling camp ...