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 ...

The smash-hit Tony-nominated play, which is in fascinating conversation with Miller, makes its UK premiere at the Royal Court ...

We can only wait for such new revisionist plays as “Blanche DuBois Is the Drag Queen” and “Mama Rose Is the Real Feminist.” Kimberly Belflower’s play “John Proctor Is the Villain” opened Monday at the ...

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 ...

At first blush, Carter Smith, the oldest character in Kimberly Belflower’s new play, “John Proctor is the Villain,” is the kind of high school English teacher you only wish you’d had. Played by ...

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 Proctor, a ...

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 ...