{"id":43438,"date":"2026-09-18T17:15:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=43438"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:27:49","slug":"furman-theatre-shines-in-american-theatre-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-theatre-shines-in-american-theatre-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman Theatre shines in American Theatre article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/theatre-arts\/\">Department of Theatre Arts<\/a> received a shoutout from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americantheatre.org\/2026\/09\/16\/john-proctor-is-the-villain-and-august-wilson-top-this-years-most-produced-lists\/\">American Theatre<\/a>, an online publication of Theatre Communications Group, for its involvement in Kimberly Belflower&#8217;s most-produced play, &#8220;John Proctor Is the Villain.&#8221; Described as &#8220;a searingly humane riff&#8221; on Aurthur Miller&#8217;s &#8220;The Crucible,&#8221; the play has roots at Furman University, Center College (Kentucky) and Rollins College (Florida), where it developed in workshops in 2018 and 2019 as a commission of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefarmtheater.org\/\">Farm Theater&#8217;s College Collaboration Projec<\/a>t and later saw &#8220;a triumphant run&#8221; on Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a decade since the first workshops, &#8220;John Proctor Is the Villain&#8221; will notch the No. 1 spot for the most-produced play of the 2026-2027 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Theatre gets a shoutout for its involvement in the most-produced play of the 2026-2027 season, &#8220;John Proctor Is the Villain&#8221; by Kimberly Belflower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":34614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3547,6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-american-theatre","category-in-the-news","category-theatre-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43438"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43446,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43438\/revisions\/43446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}