The Crucible

 

First Preview Feb 29, 2016

Opening Night Apr 07, 2016

Closing Jul 17, 2016

Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway

The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists. Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives’ Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.

The play was first performed at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway on January 22, 1953, starring E.G. Marshall, Beatrice Straight and Madeleine Sherwood. Miller felt that this production was too stylized and cold and the reviews for it were largely hostile (although The New York Times noted “a powerful play [in a] driving performance”). Nonetheless, the production won the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play. A year later a new production succeeded and the play became a classic. It is a central work in the canon of American drama. See More at TheatreGold Database

Cast

Sophie Okonedo – Elizabeth Proctor
Ben Whishaw – John Proctor
Tina Benko – Ann Putnam/Sarah Good
Teagle F. Bougere – Judge Hawthorne
Michael Braun – Ezekiel Cheever
Bill Camp – Reverend John Hale
Tavi Gevinson – Mary Warren
Jason Butler Harner – Reverend Samuel Parris
Ciarán Hinds – Deputy-Governor Danforth
Jenny Jules – Tituba
Jim Norton – Giles Corey
Saoirse Ronan – Abigail Williams
Thomas Jay Ryan – Thomas Putnam
Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut – Susanna Walcott
Elizabeth Teeter – Betty Parris
Ray Anthony Thomas – Francis Nurse
Brenda Wehle – Rebecca Nurse
Erin Wilhelmi – Mercy Lewis

Creative

Produced by Scott Rudin
Written by Arthur Miller
Original Score by Philip Glass
Directed by Ivo van Hove
Scenic Design by Jan Versweyveld
Costume Design by Wojciech Dziedzic
Lighting Design by Jan Versweyveld
General Manager: Joey Parnes Productions

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