A descendant of a victim of the Salem witch trials confronts contemporary traumas in Sarah Ruhl's Becky Nurse of Salem at Shattered Globe.

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In her Newberry Library course, Kay Daly examines the depiction of witches onstage, from the 17th century to the present.

If you've ever looked at a full moon and wondered if werewolves are real, you aren't alone. For centuries, the idea of a half ...

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“Your average witch is just somebody who lives next to you and has this spiritual practice you don’t know about,” Deborah ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what ...

Linda Reiter stars as the title character in Shattered Globe Theatre’s production of “Becky Nurse of Salem,” as a tour guide ...

It’s one of the oldest documented parts of our state’s history, and also one of the darkest. The Connecticut Witch Trials ...

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The first Chicago production by Shattered Globe Theatre stars Linda Reiter as the descendent of a woman executed during the ...