Gareth Snook, however, turns the prosecutor Danforth into a panto villain, reminiscent of Vincent Price’s Witchfinder General. A good Crucible, but not a great one. To 12 July, shakespearesglobe ...

Most venues programming a revival of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, heralded as one of the greatest plays ever written, would be accused of placing a fairly safe bet. In the vast wooden-O at ...

In an article in the New Yorker he described how he wrote the play as an “act of desperation” that was “motivated in some great part by the paralysis that had set in among many liberals”. Back then, ...

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 ...

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 ...