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By Jesse Green The first word spoken in “John Proctor Is the Villain,” a vital new play in a thrilling production at the Booth Theater on Broadway, is “sex.” Defining the word is part of a ...

NEW YORK — Dark was the time when the intensity and uncertainty of girlhood led to burning at the stake. Feel like dancing, crying or laughing till you puke? Must be the devil, not the ...

In the opening scene of Kimberly Belflower’s play, John Proctor Is the Villain (Booth Theatre, to July 6), Carter Smith (Gabriel Ebert), who at first seems to be the ideal teacher of young minds ...

Sadie Sink and Amalia Yoo in John Proctor is the Villain Julieta Cervantes ...

And now, with Broadway newcomer Kimberly Belflower’s magnificent play John Proctor Is The Villain as directed by The Outsiders‘ Danya Taymor, the witch trials are turned inside out to serve as ...

A familiarity with Miller’s work, which the playwright wrote as a response to McCarthyism, is not a requirement for John Proctor Is the Villain. In organizing her play around an English class ...

At the Booth Theatre, 222 West 45th Street. The loud title of the Broadway play “John Proctor is the Villain” reads like the rare high-school essay that wasn’t written hours before it’s due.

The classroom wall has posters about “lightbulb moments,” and many take this form, including when Shelby, ironically and fittingly, declares that John Proctor is actually the villain of “The ...

The point of the mostly melodramatic play, set in a contemporary high school classroom in a small Georgia town, is right there in the title: “John Proctor is the Villain.” Part of the problem ...