What's with the uptick in new plays about the Salem Witch Trials? This month, the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, W.Va., premiered Liz Duffy Adams's "A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World," featuring two characters who appeared in Arthur Miller's 1953 "The Crucible," set in Salem. Earlier this year, another "Crucible" gloss " "Abigail/1702," by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa " debuted in …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:16PM on July 18, 2013