Friday, July 4, 2025
He staged a revival of “The Crucible” in a Manhattan hotel ballroom in 1958, helped run Circle in the Square and oversaw the operations of Jujamcyn Theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMMonday, June 30, 2025
Paul Libin, the Theater Hall of Fame inductee and longtime Broadway producer who received 12 Tony Awards, including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, died on Ju…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:02PMTuesday, June 17, 2025
If you happen to be walking by Radio City Music Hall, you just might get a glimpse into rehearsals for Heathers the Musical! Casey Likes has shared a fun video of himself and Lorna Courtney …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PMFriday, June 13, 2025
Editors' Choice, Part Two
Yesterday, we presented the first part of our 2025 JKTS Awards honoring those theater people - new faces and familiar faces - that made the 2024-2025 Broadway …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:06AMThursday, June 5, 2025
Danya Taymor directs the new 2025 Best Play Tony nominee by Kimberly Belflower, a reexamination of The Crucible.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMWednesday, June 4, 2025
Review of the Saturday, May 31, 2025 evening performance at the Booth Theatre in New York City. Starring Sadie Sink, with Nihar Duvurri, Gabriel Ebert, Molly Griggs, Maggie Kuntz, Hagan Oliv…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:12AMTuesday, June 3, 2025
John Proctor is the Villain and Cats: The Jellicle Ball received top honors in the group's third annual Dorian Theater Awards. Both productions won three awards each, making them the most aw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMMonday, June 2, 2025
Students of Tony Awards trivia can savor a fun tidbit this year: In the spirit of Fosse and Verdon, husband-and-wife Gabriel Ebert and Danya Taymor are nominated for acting in and directing …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMWednesday, May 28, 2025
Soon enough, we'll be trading in light jackets for shorts and tees, and turning up the A.C. Where did spring go? The last couple of summers were busy, theater-wise, but this year it feels mu…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:36AMTuesday, May 27, 2025
John Proctor is the Villain, Kimberly Belflower's coming-of-age play currently nominated for seven Tony Awards, has extended its Broadway engagement. Performances will now run through July …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMDanya Taymor directs the new 2025 Best Play Tony nominee by Kimberly Belflower, a reexamination of The Crucible.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMThursday, May 22, 2025
Ince's fidelity to the language allows every nuance to be exposed
A society ruled by hysteria. Lurid lies that carry more currency than reality. There’s no shortage of reasons that Arthur …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:18AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonDirector Ola Ince brings absurdist comedy to Arthur Miller’s classic drama of Salem witch-hunting, now told partly through song
There is never a time when Arth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMMonday, May 19, 2025
The complete cast and creative team have been announced for Heathers The Musical. Tony Award nominee Kerry Butler, a veteran of 12 Broadway shows including Hairspray, Xanadu, Mean Girls, and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AMFriday, May 16, 2025
There are 22 days left until the 2025 Tony Awards, which means there is still time to see a few shows before the winners are revealed!
It has been a banner year for Broadway, with a beauti…
SOURCE: southfloridatheater.com at 08:00PMWednesday, May 14, 2025
One could be forgiven for thinking John Proctor Is the Villain is a two or three-hour long production. Once Kimberly Bellflower’s vital, gripping play comes to an end, it wouldn’t be sur…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 06:35PMHeathers the Musical has cast its Heathers. The musical will make its New York City return in a limited engagement at New World Stages from June 22 through September 28.
McKenzie Kurtz (Fr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMCasting has been announced for the three Heathers, in the off-Broadway return of Heathers: The Musical!
McKenzie Kurtz (Broadway: Frozen, The Heart of Rock and Roll, Wicked; Kennedy Center: …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AMTuesday, May 13, 2025
“I hadn’t read it since college,” says playwright Kimberly Belflower of Arthur Miller’s iconic play The Crucible. She drew inspiration for John Proctor Is the Villain from that 1953 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:41PMMonday, May 12, 2025
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:30PMSaturday, May 10, 2025
A new genre has been developing over the past few years, one that in tribute to the post-war change in British theater I’ve been calling “angry young women plays.”
These new works …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:02AMThursday, May 8, 2025
Reflections “Who’s the Witch in the Witchhunt?” by Jenyth Jo In “John Proctor Is the Villain,” Carter Smith, a high school English teacher in Georgia, explains, “Art tries to mak…
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Current Role: Amalia Yoo plays preacher’s daughter Raelynn Nix in John Proctor is the Villain, a coming-of-age play by Kimberly Belflower set in a high s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PMWednesday, May 7, 2025
Reflections Kimberly Belflower Asks, “Who’s the Witch in the Witchhunt?” by Jenyth Jo In “John Proctor is the Villain,” Carter Smith, a high school English teacher in Georgia, expl…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:49PMTuesday, May 6, 2025
What’s behind all the revivals of the shocking parable about terrifying McCarthyism in 1950s America? Our writer reflects on how, through the decades, each fresh production finds new meani…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMSunday, May 4, 2025
With Paul Mescal officially set to star in a 2027 production of A Whistle in the Dark,a co-production between London’s National Theatre and Dublin’s Abbey Theatre,industry chatter sugges…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMJohn Proctor is the Villain At the end of Arthur Miller’s classic play, “The Crucible,” protagonist John Proctor refuses to lie, even to save his own life. Overwhelmed by what he is be…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:43AMTuesday, April 29, 2025
“When I first read The Crucible, I think it was in high school, and I was just trying to make it through the year, honestly” shares Sadie Sink with a laugh. The actress stars in the new …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PMSaturday, April 26, 2025
From gasp-inducing family dramas to side-splitting comedies and a Gen Z-friendly take on The Crucible, here's some shows you should see.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24AMTuesday, April 22, 2025
By David Sheward
April 22, 2025. Two dramas on teen torment recently opened on and Off-Broadway, approaching their subjects through different lenses and both achieving dynamic theatrical re…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:02PMMonday, April 21, 2025
There's a lot of talk about John Proctor at the Booth Theatre, but it's not within the context of the famous Arthur Miller play The Crucible. John Proctor is the Villain, a new play by Kimbe…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:24PMThere's a lot of talk about John Proctor at the Booth Theatre, but it's not within the context of the famous Arthur Miller play The Crucible. John Proctor is the Villain, a new play by Kimbe…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:24PMSaturday, April 19, 2025
While Belflower’s play is clever and insightful, it is also contrived and manipulative attempting to shoehorn almost every feminist hot button topic into one story overlaying "The Crucible…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:06AMTuesday, April 15, 2025
Kimberly Belflower's John Proctor is the Villain, starring Sadie Sink and directed by Tony winner Danya Taymor, opened at Broadway's Booth Theatre on April 14.
The play centers on an …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PMSeventy-two years after its debut and Tony Award win for Best Play, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible has received new life on Broadway. No, not in the form of a revival — the last one in 201…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:24PMAt a high school in a rural town in Georgia, an English class is studying The Crucible, but the students are more preoccupied with navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals. A…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 02:45AM“John Proctor Is the Villain” is the best play of the season, but even more significantly, it is a feminist masterpiece sure to become one of the defining works of art from and about the…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 02:41AMBut although themes and incidents from The Crucible reverberate throughout this work, you don’t need to be an expert on Miller’s drama to appreciate this one. Belflower’s first Broadwa…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 02:41AMIt’s a testament to the subtle brilliance of Kimberly Belflower’s writing and Danya Tamor’s direction that you can hardly feel the 105-minute, no-intermission runtime of John Proctor I…
SOURCE: Did They Like It? at 02:41AMIn John Proctor Is the Villain, Kimberly Belflower flips the American literary canon on its head—and in doing so, she gives voice to a generation demanding clarity, justice, and truth. Set…
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