Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Julieta Cervantes It is 2018, spring semester, junior year, at Helen County High, the only high school “in a one-stoplight ...

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 ...

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" about ...

The first word spoken in "John Proctor Is the Villain" is "sex," a portent of things to come. Mr. Smith (Gabriel Ebert), a high school English teacher, has been tasked with handling sex-ed for his ...

The searing, funny “John Proctor Is the Villain,” which has been nominated for seven Tonys, including Best Play, centers on five boisterously articulate teen girls reading “The Crucible” in an honors ...

“John Proctor Is the Villain” depicts a quintet of teenage girls with remarkable acuity and clear-eyed sympathy. (Photo courtesy of DKC O&M). The #MeToo movement that burst into wide public currency ...

The setting is a school classroom in a one-stop town in Georgia, USA, a place so small that to travel ten miles makes you an outsider. But the themes of Kimberly Belflower’s dazzling play are ...

New York — “John Proctor Is the Villain,” the title of Kimberly Belflower’s Tony-nominated play, has a strong polemical ring. Before seeing the work, I assumed that the author was picking a fight with ...

It is 2018, spring semester, junior year, at Helen County High, the only high school “in a one-stoplight town”—that may soon acquire a second stoplight, we learn—in northeast Georgia. In the opening ...

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 ...