I discovered this when I visited Salem in 2005, driving there to do some research for a university production of The Crucible. Salem is about an hour’s drive due northeast from Boston and in the ...

The Crucible. By Dink O’Neal | Last Updated: August 15, 2012. Arthur ... The same can be said of Gary Clemmer's 21st-century physicalization of Reverend Hale, the court-appointed examiner.

Lancaster stage veteran Jordon Ross Weinhold (EPAC's A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder and The Boys In The Band) will be stepping into the role of Rev. John Hale for the entire run. Add a ...

Reverend Hale had just come onto the scene and was in the middle of a monologue, but managed to very naturally call out “welcome everyone” in the middle of it, playfully breaking the third wall.

Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" has long been mistaken for one-dimensional allegory. It's true Miller used the 1690s Salem witch trials to dramatize the horrors of McCarthyism, but the play is far ...

Darkness fills the theater. After a few minutes of silence, the chanting begins, and a group of dancing girls appears. They will prove to be deadly. Fueled by a massive need for power, they use rel… ...

When a major playwright or novelist is inspired by some burning issue of the moment, the result can be ephemeral. Charged with emotion and urgency at the time, the work may seem more and more opaqu… ...

This time, I heard “The Crucible” in a way I never have before. Tucker’s ability to shift the original dramatic tone to take on a more ironic, sharp-tongued resonance is quite astounding.

The Crucible, TimeLine Theatre Company. Arthur Miller’s 1953 play ostensibly examines the outbreak of suspicion that prompted the Salem witch trials in 1692. But he intended that hysteria-driven ...