‘John Proctor Is the Villain’ Review: Broadway Play Is a Powerful, Pop-Inflected Retort to ‘The Crucible’

The first word spoken in “John Proctor Is the Villain” is “sex,” a portent of things to come. Mr. Smith (Gabriel Ebert), a high school English teacher, has been tasked with handling sex-ed for his junior honors students; this module mostly consists of the students reading aloud definitions of words including “sex” and of course […]