It is 2018, spring semester, junior year, at Helen County High, the only high school “in a one-stoplight town”—that may soon acquire a second stoplight, we learn—in northeast Georgia. In the opening ...

What if the virtuous John Proctor, the hero of Arthur Miller’s acclaimed play “The Crucible” about the Salem witch trials, is not the hero? That thought, raised by a teenage girl in a rural Georgia ...

Most of us have read Arthur Miller’s tale of the Salem Witch Trials in “The Crucible,” but what if the character who we thought was the hero is actually the villain in hindsight? That’s the premise of ...

We can only wait for such new revisionist plays as “Blanche DuBois Is the Drag Queen” and “Mama Rose Is the Real Feminist.” Kimberly Belflower’s play “John Proctor Is the Villain” opened Monday at the ...

Despite the seeming spoiler of a title, John Proctor is not the malefactor in “John Proctor Is the Villain,” a clever and potently entertaining drama by Kimberly Belflower at the Booth Theatre on ...

New York — “John Proctor Is the Villain,” the title of Kimberly Belflower’s Tony-nominated play, has a strong polemical ring. Before seeing the work, I assumed that the author was picking a fight with ...

Beth (a tender and hilarious Fina Strazza) is our passionate yet unsure Mary Warren; the faithful but betrayed Raelynn (Amalia Yoo, subtle and sincere) acts as an adolescent Goody Proctor; and Shelby ...