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CRITIC'S PICK* No matter. “John Proctor Is the Villain” is too urgently necessary about its one thing to make it worth wishing it were even a little different. That the urgency comes in an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 in 'John Proctor is the Villain.' Photo Credit: Julieta Cervantes. Sadie Sink in 'John Proctor is the Villain.' Photo Credit: Julieta Cervantes. “John Proctor is the Villain ...

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 ...