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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Audiences do not meet Sink’s character Shelby right away in John Proctor, as playwright Belflower allows folks to become familiar with the other characters and how they feel about Shelby first. But ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In John Proctor Is the Villain, five young women – fueled by pop music, optimism, ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's a lot of talk about John Proctor at the Booth Theatre, but it's not within the context of the famous Arthur Miller play The Crucible. John Proctor is the Villain, a new play by Kimberly ...

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 ...