We can only wait for such new revisionist plays as “Blanche DuBois Is the Drag Queen” and “Mama Rose Is the Real Feminist.” Kimberly Belflower’s play “John Proctor Is the Villain” opened Monday at the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
At first blush, Carter Smith, the oldest character in Kimberly Belflower’s new play, “John Proctor is the Villain,” is the kind of high school English teacher you only wish you’d had. Played by ...
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 Proctor, a ...
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 ...
Logan Kelly is a professional author, screenwriter, and proud cinemaphile. He studied screenwriting and film history while attending Valencia College, before moving to the New York Metro Area. The ...
A blind spot in my theatre education has always been Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. I knew what it was about and understood the general gist of what he was doing with the play but I was never asked to ...
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is easily still one of the most relevant plays in modern history. A story of mass hysteria and the dangers of extremism, it fictionalises the Salem witch trials with an ...
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 ...
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 Proctor, a ...