Playbill: <i>The Crucible</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1953
name: label: author
content: Miller, Arthur
notes: label: Description
content: Arthur Miller's play <i> The Crucible</i> premiered at New York City's Martin Beck Theater in 1953. Broadway audiences easily understood the story, set during the period of the Salem Witch Trials, as a critique of the anti-communist fervor engulfing the nation. Miller drew on his experiences being questioned by the U.S. House of Un-American Activities Committee, led by Senator Eugene McCarthy, when writing the tragedy.
label: Description
content: Starring Arthur Kennedy, Madeline Sherwood, Walter Hapden, Beatrice Straight, and E.G., Marshall,<i>The Crucible</i> won the 1953 Tony for best new play. It has now considered one of the most important works of American theater, with its text being read as part of many American High Schools' curriculum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Theater
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0149.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0149
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0149.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: playbill
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 6 5/8 in; 22.86 cm x 16.8275 cm