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.

His 1953 play, The Crucible, used the Salem witch trials as a metaphor for the Red Scare, exposing the dangers of mass hysteria and false accusations. While the play was initially met with mixed ...

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 ...

She brings the play up to date, transforming Miller's Red Scare allegory into one more suited to our current political climate. In the process, she makes "The Crucible" feel surprisingly fresh ...

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 ...