A witch hunt is beginning in Salem.
Raised to be seen and not heard, a group of young women suddenly find their words have a terrible power.
As a climate of fear spreads through the community, private vendettas fuel public accusations and soon the truth itself is on trial.
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company has announced its 2013-2014 20th Anniversary Season schedule. All productions will feature Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's Resident Company of Artists. CSC's 20th season of bringing the classics to life in Cincinnati is generously sponsored by The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation. This season, CSC is proud to become one of only five theaters in the United States to 'Complete the Canon' by producing all 38 plays by William Shakespeare. 20th Anniversary Season Subscription packages went on sale February 1, 2013 and experienced a record breaking first day of sales. Single tickets are now on sale and seats are filling up fast!
Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has announced the availability of Great Moments in the Theatre by Benedict Nightingale, published by Oberon Books (London). Starting with the first performance of Aeschylus' The Oresteia in 458 BC and ending with the premiere of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem in London of 2009 AD, former New York Times critic and chief theatre critic of the Times (London) for over 20 years, Benedict Nightingale collects in one volume what he extols as the greatest moments in theatre.
Bay Street Theatre's Literature Live! presentation of THE CRUCIBLE, by Arthur Miller, will be presented live on stage in a professional production beginning this Friday, November 9 thru Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, November 24. The play is directed by Murphy Davis, Artistic Director of Bay Street Theatre. Get a first look at the production in the photos below!
Bay Street Theatre's Literature Live! presentation of THE CRUCIBLE, by Arthur Miller, will be presented live on stage in a professional production beginning tonight, November 9 thru Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, November 24. Bay Street Theatre will be donating 10% of all tickets sales for the public performances of THE CRUCIBLE to Island Harvest, an organization that is collecting money and food specifically for Long Island hurricane victims.
Bay Street Theatre's Literature Live! presentation of THE CRUCIBLE, by Arthur Miller, will be presented live on stage in a professional production beginning this Friday, November 9 thru Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, November 24. Bay Street Theatre will be donating 10% of all tickets sales for the public performances of THE CRUCIBLE to Island Harvest, an organization that is collecting money and food specifically for Long Island hurricane victims.
Bay Street Theatre's Literature Live! presentation of THE CRUCIBLE, by Arthur Miller, will be presented live on stage in a professional production November 6-24. The play will be directed by Murphy Davis, Artistic Director of Bay Street Theatre. Weekday performances are for local and regional schools, groups and the general public. Check out photos of the cast in rehearsal below!
Bay Street Theatre's Literature Live! presentation of THE CRUCIBLE, by Arthur Miller, will be presented live on stage in a professional production November 6-24. The play will be directed by Murphy Davis, Artistic Director of Bay Street Theatre. The full cast has been announced.
Virginia Repertory Theatre announces the opening of Night Blooms by Margaret Baldwin at the Sara Belle and Neil November Theatre tonight, Friday, September 28.
Bay Street Theatre's Literature Live! presentation of THE CRUCIBLE, by Arthur Miller, will be live on stage in a professional production November 6-24. The play will be directed by Murphy Davis, Artistic Director of Bay Street Theatre.
Virginia Repertory Theatre announces the opening of Night Blooms by Margaret Baldwin at the Sara Belle and Neil November Theatre on Friday, September 28 with Previews on September 26 and 27.
Join us for the New-York Historical Society's inaugural Bernard and Irene Schwartz Classic Film Series, World War II and Its Legacy in Film, featuring opening remarks by notable directors, writers, actors, and historians. Produced in conjunction with New-York Historical's exhibition WWII & NYC, this selection of classic films will show a broad scope of life during and after the war and reflect many of the exhibition's themes, including life on the home front, the dispatch of troops and the struggle to readapt to postwar life.
In 2013 MTC presents four world premieres from some of Australia's most accomplished playwrights and five Australian premieres of works from UK, Europe, South Africa and USA. Melbourne Theatre Company celebrates the opening of its 2013 season and 60th anniversary year with the Australian premiere of THE OTHER PLACE by Sharr White.
The fifth production of the 2012 Hangar season is a true American classic, Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful. This intensely moving and riveting story of acceptance and coming home again will be directed by the Hangar's Associate Artistic Director Stephanie Yankwitt (Hangar's Rounding Third) and features a cast of local favorites including Susannah Berryman (Hangar's Penelope of Ithaca, The Chalk Circle, Cabaret, and The Rainmaker) and Jesse Bush (Hangar's Ever So Humble, Disney's Beauty and the Beast). The Trip to Bountiful opens tonight, September 7, and runs through September 15th.
The fifth production of the 2012 Hangar season is a true American classic, Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful. This intensely moving and riveting story of acceptance and coming home again will be directed by the Hangar's Associate Artistic Director Stephanie Yankwitt (Hangar's Rounding Third) and features a cast of local favorites including Susannah Berryman (Hangar's Penelope of Ithaca, The Chalk Circle, Cabaret, and The Rainmaker) and Jesse Bush (Hangar's Ever So Humble, Disney's Beauty and the Beast). The Trip to Bountiful will preview September 6, and run September 7 through September 15th.
The Hub, home of the Edinburgh International Festival, is to host the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) exhibition, The Guthrie Thrust Stage 1948 - 2011: A Living Legacy. The scale models and photographs can be seen from this week and throughout this year's Edinburgh International Festival.
Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, under the leadership of Artistic Director, Julianne Boyd, and Managing Director, Tristan Wilson, presents Arthur Miller's landmark American drama ALL MY SONS, from tonight, July 19 through August 4
Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, under the leadership of Artistic Director, Julianne Boyd, and Managing Director, Tristan Wilson, presents Arthur Miller's landmark American drama ALL MY SONS, from July 19 through August 4
Point Park University's Conservatory Theatre Company will produce five works in the 2012 - 2013 season, which opens Oct. 19, 2012 and runs through April 21, 2013 at the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
Today, we bring you legenday playwright Arthur Miller, circa 1993. Miller's most famous plays include: All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge. Miller's career as a writer spanned over seven decades, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Prince of Asturias Award.
All My Sons plays in the Severson Theatre March 8 - 25, 2012.
Today in 1964, The Crucible opened at the Belasco Theatre, where it ran for 16 performances. The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. It was first performed at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway on January 22, 1953. The production won the 1953 'Best Play' Tony Award. It is a central work in the canon of American drama.
An ageless tale of fear, greed, and power, The Crucible is a revolutionary work of theater by Arthur Miller. Since the play's Broadway premiere in 1953, The Crucible has enjoyed worldwide success. Local audiences can experience this classic drama when Costa Mesa Playhouse presents The Crucible April 13 - May 6.
The Grand Theatre is presenting Arthur Miller's American Classic play The Crucible March 8-24, 2012 with 7:30 pm performances Wednesday through Saturday and 2:00 pm matinees on select Saturdays. Tickets can be purchased through the Grand Theatre box office at (801) 957-3322 or through the website www.the-grand.org.
All My Sons plays in the Severson Theatre March 8 - 25, 2012.
Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" is set during the 17th century Salem Witch trials and written during the height of 1950s McCarthyism.
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