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 ...

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 ...

PEABODY, Mass. — The house in which a victim of the Salem witch trials once lived is available for $600,000. The nearly 4,000-square-foot manse was once the home of John Proctor, who was wrongly ...

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 Georgia ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. As Abigail Williams, Deanna Myers embodies the full arc of the character. We see ...

SALEM, MA -- A team of researchers using historical documents and 21st-century archaeological techniques has confirmed the site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the Salem witch trials more ...

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 ...

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. Nearly four ...

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. Nearly four ...

Perhaps you recall the young women who led the “witch hunt” in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. But did you know that in reality, “temptress” Abigail Williams was just an 11-year-old girl? Her cousin ...