The accused never denied witchcraft existed – they denied being part of it. Mary Easty’s calm, reasoned plea exposed cracks ...

“Villain,” starring Sadie Sink from “Stranger Things,” is set in a Georgia English class full of hormonal teens studying Miller’s Salem witch trials classic — the main character of ...

The Salem Witch trials have, many times over, proven themselves near unbreakable as allegory, starting at least with Arthur Miller’s 1953 The Crucible, in which the goings on in Massachusetts ...

The Salem Witch trials have, many times over, proven themselves near unbreakable as allegory, starting at least with Arthur Miller’s 1953 The Crucible, in which the goings on in Massachusetts Bay ...

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.

As the release of Agatha All Along gets closer, fans get more excited to explore the characters - let's take a look at what ...

The Huntington’s production arrives in Salem’s backyard. The witch trials examined in “The Crucible” and reinterpreted in “John Proctor is the Villain” happened just up the road.

In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials.

The Salem witch trials have been endlessly rehashed and reclaimed in pop culture, including onstage; Bedlam presented a stripped-down and pointedly political take on “The Crucible” in this ...

In "Becky Nurse of Salem," celebrated playwright Sarah Ruhl centers a sensuous, flawed woman protagonist in a contemporary response to history and Arthur Miller's landmark play.