On Oct. 20, 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began its investigation into the alleged communist infiltration in Hollywood, which landed hundreds of people who worked in showb… ...

He staged a revival of “The Crucible” in a Manhattan hotel ballroom in 1958, helped run Circle in the Square and oversaw the ...

In the anxious years after World War II ended in 1945, nuclear power reshuffled the global order, and fear of communist intrigue in the United States ignited a Red Scare that targeted government ...

Miller wrote it as a commentary on the Red Scare of the early 1950's in the United States that resulted in the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), which was separate ...

While works like The Crucible employed the allegory of the Salem witch trials to examine the Red Scare, other plays tackled the blacklist head-on, such as Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?, which ...

Early in “Red Scare,” Clay Risen’s thorough, impassioned but even-handed study of Cold War hysteria in the U.S., the author makes a point of explaining what his subject is — and isn’t ...

The official prelude to this renewed Red Scare was the first Donald Trump administration’s launch of the China-U.S. trade war in March 2018, citing national security concerns.

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 ...