And now, with Broadway newcomer Kimberly Belflower’s magnificent play John Proctor Is The Villain as directed by The Outsiders‘ Danya Taymor, the witch trials are turned inside out to serve as ...

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.

The play’s title refers to the most prominent male character in “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s classic retelling of the Salem witch trials, inspired by Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist witch hunt ...

The pivotal accuser at the trials, Tituba, would go down in history ... More than anyone else, she propelled America’s infamous witch hunt forward, supplying its imagery and determining its ...

A visitor trail about witch trials in the 16th and 17th centuries is being brought to life by augmented reality. The Tendring Witch Heritage Trail is set in Harwich, Manningtree, St Osyth and ...

Season 3 will dive deeper into the mythology of witchcraft, introduce new ‘spellbound’ families and feature some of the historical happenings of Salem, the infamous town of witch trials and folklore.

In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...