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Plunging into the frenzy of the Salem witch trials, Miller’s forensic 1953 dissection of mass hysteria and persecution (written in the shadow of McCarthyism) is, dismayingly, always relevant. Right ...
A new theatre show will be performed outside London for the first time in Sheffield next week. Two Plant Gaysians, an ...
Two sets of parents getting together to resolve a playground altercation between their sons escalates from polite ...
Zak Surety had a very eventful debut at the World Snooker Championship this year and although he both loved and hated the experience, he was convinced that the ‘mad’ Crucible is the perfect home for ...
Playwright Kimberly Belflower and director Danya Taymor reveal how the Tony-nominated play 'John Proctor Is the Villain' made it to Broadway, with help from 'Stranger Things' star Sadie Sink and pop ...
My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) has kicked off its five night limited engagement at New York City Center from June 12 ...
Wilf Scolding admits that up to a couple of years ago he would never have thought of himself as a musical theatre performer.
At Broadway’s Studio 54, Jean Smart takes a break from winning Emmy Awards as a sharply dissatisfied comedian on “Hacks” to ...
The Baltimore favorite reflects on 50 shows at Everyman Theatre and returning to the glorious chaos of Charles Ludlam’s camp ...
Arthur Miller’s 1953 play is a bona fide modern classic, its study of hysteria and herd behaviour – filtering the paranoia of mid-20th century McCarthyism through the Salem Witch Trials in theocratic ...
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, ...