The Globe Theatre is no stranger to witches, but usually this takes the form of the Wyrd Sisters in the Scottish Play rather ...

This post-WWII time in history became known as the Red Scare, due to the fear that communism ... and wrote his acclaimed play “The Crucible” as a metaphor for the hearings.

It's fire and brimstone time at the Virginia Theater, where "The Crucible" is thundering across ... a fervent point to make in 1953, when the Red Scare was gaining dangerous momentum.

The production of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” an examination of both the Salem Witch Trials and an allegory for the dangers of McCarthyism during the Red Scare of the 1950s, premiered Friday. Its ...

Miller wrote it as a commentary on the Red Scare of the early 1950's in the ... by Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. But THE CRUCIBLE becomes timeless in its depiction of the pursuit of ...

Risen’s new book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America, draws on newly declassified documents to tell these overlooked stories and paint a lively portrait of the ...

IN THE CRUCIBLE, Arthur Miller used the Salem witch trials of the 17th century to depict the Red Scare he and others experienced in the 1950s. The fright felt by the American public in the ’50s ...

Ola Ince directs Arthur Miller’s bombastic allegorical tragedy as if it was a storyline in ‘The Archers’ – with surprisingly ...