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 ...

The first word spoken in “John Proctor Is the Villain” is “sex,” a portent of things to come. Mr. Smith (Gabriel Ebert), a high school English teacher, has been tasked with handling sex-ed for his ...

“John Proctor Is the Villain” depicts a quintet of teenage girls with remarkable acuity and clear-eyed sympathy. (Photo courtesy of DKC O&M). The #MeToo movement that burst into wide public currency ...

“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 Arthur ...

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 ...

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 ...