The Crucible April 24, 2009

Renowned playwright Arthur Miller, long a Brooklyn resident, penned this Tony Award winning play in 1953, while Senator Joseph McCarthy and his Communist "witch hunts" were making national headlines. The extremes of McCarthyism serve as parallels for Miller's 1692 witch trial, although issues of intolerance, paranoia and hysteria are just as relevant to the political and social landscape of today.