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.

His actual job is to teach his students “The Crucible,” a rite of passage for almost all American schoolchildren. He explains to his students how Arthur Miller used the Salem witch trials in ...

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 ...

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 ...