February, 22 2018 - March 7, 2018 | All Day

1147 E. Grand St. Springfield, MO 65897

By Arthur Miller
Directed by Dr. Kurt Gerard Heinlein

Note: There is no late seating in the Balcony Theatre.

In the insular and theocratic Puritan village of 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, a group of young girls are discovered dancing in the woods and immediately fall ill. To divert suspicion from their own activities, they accuse a young farmer’s wife of witchcraft. As the farmer struggles to clear his wife in court, the malicious lies grow. Fed by long-held grudges and irrational fears, the hysteria expands to engulf a host of other women and the farmer himself. In their zeal to purge the community of evil, the community ignites evil. An allegory for Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist crusades of the 1950s, THE CRUCIBLE remains a cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, extremism, intolerance and injustice that is just as relevant today.

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February 22, 2018 – 7:30pm
February 23, 2018 – 7:30pm
February 24, 2018 – 7:30pm
February 25, 2018 – 7:30pm
February 27, 2018 – 7:30pm
February 28, 2018 – 7:30pm
March 1, 2018 – 7:30pm
March 2, 2018 – 7:30pm
March 3, 2018 – 7:30pm
March 4, 2018 – 7:30pm
March 6, 2018 – 7:30pm
March 7, 2018 – 7:30pm

Cost: $8-14