Reflections “Who’s the Witch in the Witchhunt?” by Jenyth Jo In “John Proctor Is the Villain,” Carter Smith, a high school English teacher in Georgia, explains, “Art tries to make sense of certain moments in time.” Since Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is an allegory for McCarthyism, phrases like the “current witch-hunt” and “speak truth…
Lynn Nottage Revives Crucial Conflict in Civil Rights Era by Kheven Lee LaGrone Playwright Lynn Nottage is the only woman in history to have won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Her early work, “Crumbs from the Table of Joy,” set in 1950 Brooklyn, is the story of a devoted follower of Father Divine, a…
Shakespeare Warns Us: Give Up Vengeance! by Lynne Stevens In Theatre Lunatico’s “Romeo and Juliet,” The Chorus (all the cast) take poses depicting scenes we will witness love, anger, dance, play. They describe the two dignified but feuding households in fair Verona. But these teenagers have it right but have no control over their…
Jacobs & Casey Have Us Dancing in Our Seats by Lynne Stevens When I was in high school a boy who took auto shop classes and was rumored to have been in “juvie” asked me to the prom. He had the requisite greased hair and cigarette packet tucked into the rolled-up sleeve of his…