Trinity Repertory Company opens its 60th Anniversary Season with two plays performed in rotating repertory, both dark dramedies with thematic ties to gender, power, and Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Every high school kid knows Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” the allegorical play seemingly about the Salem witch trials but really fighting the chill of McCarthyism. In that play sits John ...

We’re in New England a year before the infamous trials, in the company of two cousins, Abigail, about to turn 12, and Betty, nine. They bicker as they churn butter in bonnets, and we soon see that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Playwright Kimberly Belflower grew up in a two-stoplight town in a dry county in rural Georgia. Back in high school, Belflower didn’t think of her experience as distinctive. But when she started ...

“Becky Nurse of Salem,” the latest play by Sarah Ruhl, has just opened at Lincoln Center Theater, and the MacArthur-winning playwright wants to make one thing clear: While her play is in many ways a ...

In “John Proctor Is the Villain” – being given a you-don’t-want-to-miss-a-minute production by the Huntington, under the inspired direction of Margot Bordelon, at the Calderwood Pavilion through March ...