This review contains spoilers. The new play, “John Proctor is the Villain,” confusingly introduced itself to Broadway. With ...

He “cornered much of the megamarket,” auctioneer John Kapon would later say ... and he warned against a “Salem Witch Trial” by the “No Joy, No Luck Club,” as he dubbed anyone who ...

If amateur investigation into my lineage is to be believed, Rebecca Nurse is my ninth great-grandmother, Lynne Weiler writes.

In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...