Adam Epstein, who won a Tony Award for producing Hairspray before he was 30 and received other nominations for his work on revivals of Amadeus and The Crucible and adaptations of The Wedding Singer and Cry-Baby…

The Gilded Age, Tony nominee Julian Fellowes' HBO drama series about late-19th-century New York City, has announced new cast members for its upcoming third season, including several familiar to Broadway and Ne…

A slew of new names have joined the third season of HBO's hit drama The Gilded Age. Bill Camp (Broadway's The Crucible), Merritt Wever, Leslie Uggams, and Lisagay Hamilton will all play key roles in Season 3's …

Crucible, SheffieldAn excellent cast and clever use of movement add up to a fine revival of Mike Bartlett’s 2012 version of the film, directed by Robert Hastie in his final season as the Crucible’s artistic…

After six years at Pitlochry, the admired director known for ‘big-hearted theatre work’ takes reins at major producing centre Sheffield Theatres have appointed Elizabeth Newman as artistic director, succeed…

Cooking as the crucible for family and friendship, as well as self-discovery, is familiar territory in theater and film. Whether it’s Jenna in Waitress working out her personal angst through creative pie reci…

  Jake Minevich has done Shakespeare in every park except the Delacorte. He was in Creed 2, and numerous Off-Off Broadway productions. A Brooklyn-born, military school raised actor that yearns to be on the …

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Tony and Olivier-Award winning director Ivo van Hove in all areas. Belgian-born van Hove has built a reputation for experimental revisions of Hollywood and Broadway classics including …

(Nick Ahad’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/10/2024. Magnetic … Anoushka Lucas and Simon Manyonda in The Crucible at Crucible, Sheffield.  Photograph: Manuel Harlan.) Crucible, Sheffield Director Ant…

Crucible, SheffieldDirector Anthony Lau brings his fiercely rigorous intellect to bear on this intensely felt love story, with standout performances from Simon Manyonda and Anoushka Lucas There is a particular …

The complete cast is set for Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of Mary Jane, starring Rachel McAdams in her Broadway debut. Directed by Anne Kauffman, the show begins performances on April 2 at the S…

By Douglas Mayo Sheffield Theatres have announced casting for Anthony Lau's production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. This post Sheffield Theatres announces casting for The Crucible first appeared on British …

★★★ THE GOOD JOHN PROCTOR, JERMYN STREET THEATRE Witch Hunt play fails to fly An overdue response to 'The Crucible', but very much rooted in its place, if not its time It is no surprise that the phrase �…

Jermyn Street theatre, LondonSet in the year before the events of The Crucible, the volatile children’s games that seed the later hysteria are brilliantly played but the drama is missing We are in Salem a yea…

Allen Barton’s play, and its connection to the cancelling of a new play at Santa Monica College By Steven Leigh Morris Whitney Nielsen in Allen Barton’s “Outrage” (Photo by Maria Proios) Allen Barton�…

Three leading West End/Broadway theater lighting designers are using GLP’s new impression X5 Wash – all supplied by Paul Anderson at Sparks Theatrical Hire – to light current or upcoming shows. Paule Con…

One of the great pleasures of theater is seeing a revival of a classic play not only succeed on its own merits but also be relevant to modern times. Certain works such as The Crucible or Enemy of the People nev…

Literature Live @ Bay Street Theater - Arthur Miller’s Tony Award-winning play THE CRUCIBLE. November 8, 2023: The 15th Annual Literature Live, a highly anticipated production of Arhtur Miller’s Tony Award…

Crucible, Sheffield It takes a while to get going but when it hits its straps, thanks to the cast’s skilful handling of farce, Sarah Tipple’s production from the Roger McGough translation becomes genuinely …

Ahsan Ali is a writer, actor, and filmmaker who grew up in Pakistan, and then immigrated to NYC where he currently resides. Select theater credits: Amir in Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar (American Stage), Natarajan…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotHorror-movie witches haunt the unhappy couple throughout this touring co-production. It’s one of many interesting ideas that are dropped too soon There is no shortage of id…

London’s National Theatre has unveiled the complete ensemble cast for Roald Dahl’s “The Witches,” a co-production with the Roald Dahl Story Company. The stage musical is directed by Lyndsey Turner (“T…

Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) has announced the full cast and creative team for the company’s world-premiere production of Jocelyn Bioh’s Jaja’s African Hair Braiding. The cast will feature Brittany Adebu…

The National Theatre’s acclaimed new production of The Crucible transfers to the West End this June for a strictly limited season, featuring Milly Alcock (House of the Dragon) as Abigail Williams, Caitlin Fit…

Crucible, SheffieldBilled as an opportunity to reframe Boublil and Schönberg’s original, this is more of a tweak but it is a visually captivating production Last autumn, a theatre company of British east and…

By Paul T Davies Paul T Davies reviews the transfer of the National Theatre's production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible now playing at the Gielgud Theatre. This post REVIEW: The Crucible, Gielgud Theatre Londo…

Arthur Miller’s 1953 play is as compelling as ever in Lyndsey Turner’s production Whining Donald Trump and snivelling Boris Johnson claim that they are victims of witch-hunts, although all the evidence sugg…

Gielgud theatre, LondonHarnessing horror film conventions, Lyndsey Turner’s intelligent revival conjures places where truth is a political inconvenience Seventy years after its premiere, Arthur Miller’s gre…

House of the Dragon's Milly Alcock, Peaky Blinders' Brian Gleeson, and Succession's Caitlin FitzGerald lead the company.

Leading the cast of the London revival are House of the Dragon's Milly Alcock, Peaky Blinders' Brian Gleeson, and Succession's Caitlin FitzGerald.

June 10, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Between 41st and 66th streets there are forty-two legit Broadway theatres (this includes the Palace, currently under renovation and scheduled to reope…

Leading the cast are House of the Dragon's Milly Alcock, Peaky Blinders' Brian Gleeson, and Succession's Caitlin FitzGerald.

When we think of story ballets performed by classical companies, images of princesses, dancing swans, and castles hosting balls come to mind. Not so for The Scottish Ballet’s opening night performance of “T…

A powerful story based on Arthur Miller's play at a time when new shadows loom and fear of the unknown and outsiders is on the rise.

By Douglas Mayo The National Theatre's production of Arthur Miller's classic play The Crucible is to transfer to the Gielgud Theatre from 7 June 2023. This post National Theatre’s production of The Crucible t…

Stan Buturla has acted in varied roles such as Coriolanus at The Soho Rep and Teddy in The Homecoming at The Classic Stage Company. He has performed at The Access Theater where he played the role of Deputy Gove…

All photos by Chelcie Parry The show: “Regretfully, So the Bird Are” at Playwrights Horizons by Julia Izumi, directed by Jenny Loons. What makes …

Lyndsey Turner's Olivier-nominated take on the Arthur Miller play is transferring to the West End this summer.

Puppetry is hard work! Watch the cast of "Life of Pi" put a scene together, from no props and puppets, to using props and puppets, to the full scene with all effects. "Life of Pi," first a 2001 novel by Yann M…

https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/ballet/2022-2023/scottish-ballet/ After stunning audiences in its Kennedy Center debut with its “impressive” (The Washington Post) production of A S…

“The Crucible” and “Anna Karenina” are among the some newer ballets inspired by novels.

Unfortunately, Monohon’s play which takes its cues from Miller’s drama, assumes a thorough knowledge of "The Crucible" and leaves out a great deal of information that would make it easier to follow. For exa…

Bedlam presents the world premiere of Talene Monahon's provocative prequel to The Crucible.

The play, directed by Caitlin Sullivan at the Connelly Theater, focuses on two girls in the year leading up to the action depicted in “The Crucible.”

Lyndsey Turner's Olivier-nominated production is transferring to the West End's Gielgud Theatre this summer.

The National Theatre’s acclaimed new production of The Crucible transfers to the West End this June for a strictly limited season. Book tickets: https://bit.ly/3mGfrBt Official London Theatre is th…

A 2019 selection for The Kilroys List of industry-recommended plays by female and trans playwrights, the work is a riff on The Crucible.

Almeida, LondonLulu Raczka’s new play, directed by Rupert Goold, is beautifully designed but the plot – and the point – is puzzling. Maybe the joke’s on us? This confounding play is nothing if not uniqu…

London's National Theatre has also announced Lyndsey Turner's take on The Crucible is transferring to the West End.

Tron theatre, GlasgowFour girls gather around a pentangle in Maryam Hamidi’s punchy and poetic new play, which captures the vulnerability of adolescence When you see the gang of teenagers who form a midnight …

We always enjoy discovering new talent in as many shows as we can. So far this season, there's been an abundance of Broadway debuts, both onstage and on creative teams. Sometimes, they are in leading roles or t…

By: David Sheward December 19, 2022: Rebecca Nurse is a minor character in The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s harrowing dramatization of the witch-hunt hysteria which gripped colonial America. But she is the cen…

In any event, Ruhl has not written a play set in 1692 or a sequel to "The Crucible" but a comedy about free-spirited Becky Nurse, a descendant of the accused witch Rebecca Nurse, a pious 71-year-old woman who h…

By: Samuel L. Leiter December 16, 2022: In an afterword appended to her script for Becky Nurse of Salem, playwright Sarah Ruhl (In the Next Room, or the vibrator play), whose unsatisfying dramedy about the S…

The Crucible, has withstood all manner of productions, from starry Broadway to high school drama club, and it will withstand Sarah Ruhl’s crass replay, Becky Nurse of Salem The post [NYC] BECKY NURSE OF SALEM…

She wanted to write a historically accurate version of The Crucible, then it became something completely different.

Theatre Bay Area’s Arts Leadership Residency removes roadblocks to arts leadership for historically marginalized groups by funding theatremakers in residence at professional theatres where they will be mentor…

Crucible, SheffieldSteve Waters’s newly revived and updated companion pieces about global heating have lost none of their urgency Steve Waters’s double bill about global heating, The Contingency Plan, is ev…

"The Crucible," now at the National Theatre in London, will be broadcast in cinemas via NT Live on January 26 in the UK and March 2 in the US. The post Just in Time for Halloween, Witches Come to The National T…

Though many people know the Arthur Miller classic, this moment in American history has received plenty of attention onstage.

Arthur Miller's career as a writer spanned over seven decades and gave us some of the greatest works in the American theatrical canon. While plays like Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge and The Crucib…

The actor best-known for playing Princess Anne in The Crown on making her National Theatre debut in The Crucible – and how the world it portrays is not so different from today Erin Doherty grew up in Crawley,…

Lyttelton; Olivier; Royal Docks, LondonThirties Harlem is vibrantly alive at the National, while mob rule meets Little House on the Prairie in an assured revival of The Crucible. Elsewhere, a night on the tiles…

A WARNING FOR ALL TIMES     This is the big one.  It’s the National Theatre at its strongest:   unapologetic, classic,  unsparing, gripping, impassioned.    Here’s  the heavy artillery, intellectual…

Catch two new plays by Pulitzer Prize winners, three new musicals and four Tony-winning actors There may be 20 shows bowing on Broadway this fall but Off Broadway there are dozens of productions opening just th…

Discover what critics have made of Lyndsey Turner’s production of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, officially open at the National Theatre’s Olivier space.

Lyndsey Turner paints this seminal drama with disturbing colours How can this beauty arise from such ugliness? The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s 1953 drama about the Salem witch trials of 1692, is rife with unwav…

There is an opera of “The Crucible.” Written by Robert Ward, it won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize. But this is not the opera… or is it? Lyndsey Turner’s grandiloquent National Theatre production of Arthur Mil…

Brendan Cowell and Erin Doherty lead the cast as John Proctor and Abigail Williams in the Arthur Miller revival.

National Theatre, LondonDirector Lyndsey Turner misses the opportunity to give Arthur Miller’s allegory modern resonance with a too-faithful interpretation Arthur Miller’s play used the Salem witch trials a…

Lyndsey Turner directs the Arthur Miller play.

Tony-winning director Ivo van Hove will helm a new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar. This will mark the second collaboration between the director and producer Albert Ver…

Lyndsey Turner directs the revival of the Arthur Miller classic.

America's peculiar, extreme notion of freedom insists on the right to be free from judgment for our thoughts and actions.

Arthur Miller’s 50s Warnings Resonate in 21st Century by Lynne Stevens Arthur Miller had the Big Red Scare in mind when he wrote “The Crucible” in 1953. Miller depicts the Salem Witch Trials in Massachuse…

(Nick Ahad’s article appeared in the Guardian, 9/14; Photo: Compelling … Guy Rhys (Benedick) and Daneka Etchells (Beatrice) in Much Ado About Nothing at the Crucible, Sheffield. Photograph: Johan Persson.)…

Meg needs a reference letter for a program she's applying to. Meg's boss agrees to give her one but asks Meg to write it herself and then she'll sign off on it. Oh, and lets Meg know the talented, kind and popu…

Oscar and Tony nominee Laura Linney is returning to Broadway. She will star in the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn's Summer, 1976, directed by Tony winner Daniel Sullivan. Per…

It is not until the last 15 minutes of Sophie McIntosh’s new play, "macbitches," that a dramatic event takes place. Up until then the play is mostly the chit chat of acting majors talking about productions th…

Beetlejuice on Broadway stars Alex Brightman, alongside Kerry Butler, David Josefsberg, Obie Award Winner Adam Dannheisser, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Kelvin Moon Loh, Danny Rutigliano, and Dana Steingold, plus …