Cry Innocent: The People Versus Bridget Bishop

10/31/2025

Thank you, Mainstreets, for this super helpful post. So glad to have you as neighbors! Listen up, Cry audiences: Our last show is at 4:15 today, (Halloween) but we have 7 more days of performances. We close 11/7

10/12/2025

Adding a 3PM show for our friends who can't get in to the 1:30. Come in from the gathering storm!

06/23/2025

June 20th marked the 33rd anniversary of Cry Innocent! We were busy with a new premiere but we want to celebrate our longest, continuously running show! Swipe to see some wonderful Cry casts over the decades!

Thank you for allowing us to bring you Bridget Bishop’s story– for all of your questions, for your new perspectives, and for your drive towards justice (or historical accuracy). Here’s to the years to come!

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06/10/2025

Ten in the morning today marks the three hundred and thirty third year since Bridget Bishop’s ex*****on. Eight days after her conviction by jury, she was taken to Proctor’s Ledge, just a mile from Salem Town, and executed by hanging. She was the first person executed of the nineteen killed during the Trials.

At Proctor’s Ledge today, there is a plaque commemorating all the victims of the Salem Witch Trials executed there. By Charter Street Cemetery, the Salem Witch Trials Memorial displays stones with their names. Often, visitors leave flowers or other tokens of remembrance.

Whether you’re near or far from Salem, please take a moment to remember Bridget. She was fashionable, fiercely intelligent, and bold. She was taken from this Earth too soon.

Pictured are some of our actors portraying Bridget over the years, in hope that her story, and the lessons we must learn from Salem’s history, will be remembered.

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01/17/2025

Happy birthday, MLK. History Alive is preparing to honor your legacy in a few weeks’ time.

Our Cry Innocent actors are stepping out of 1692 for some fantastic off-season shows. Join us as we celebrate Black history and culture with two different events!

First, on Friday February 21st at 7 pm, we have Fashioning for Freedom: Layers of Liberty–a fashion show bringing to life famous Black historical figures in full period-accurate dress! You’ll learn about their lives and legacies and see some fabulous clothes!

Then, on the afternoon of Sunday, February 23rd, we’re putting on a play, In Open Rebellion, portraying the Provincial Congress, a secret meeting of patriots in Salem, just before the start of the Revolutionary War. In Open Rebellion explores enslaved peoples' struggle for liberty, and how it intersected with the patriot’s cause. Join the forbidden assembly!

Both Fashioning for Freedom and In Open Rebellion are free, but we do require that you make a reservation to join at https://historyalivesalem.simpletix.com/ (or scan the QR code on either poster). We’ll be presenting both events at Salem’s Old Town Hall, 32 Derby Square. Hope to see you there!

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“Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten….America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness–justice.”
—MLK Jr.

10/31/2024

Longing to slow down time? Remaining available "Cry Innocent" shows today, Halloween, 2024: 1:30 and 4:30. While October may be slipping away, we're here with daily shows, until November 8th. (Painting "Old Man with a Sphere, an Hourglass, a Skull and Books (Vanitas) by Gonzales Coques. , , , , , , ,

10/18/2024

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10/12/2024

Between Cry Innocent and Kids' Pub the Puritans at History Alive, Inc. Salem, MA will be dancing our socks off this weekend! 12 Cry Innocent shows and one sold out Kids' Pub show. Remaining available Cry Innocent tickets can be found in the Simpletix link in the comments.

10/11/2024

3PM shows added to Fridays in Oct. Fingers crossed you'll beat the weekend rush!

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10/11/2024

Sold out Cry Innocent shows mean add ons! 3:00 PM added today. Tickets here and at the box office cart. , Destination Salem, Massachusetts, Salem Haunted Happenings, Salem Main Streets, Salem Witch Museum, Salem, Ma - The Witch City, Massachusetts Teachers Association, Creative North Shore, Creative County, History Alive, Inc. Salem, MA, Essex National Heritage Area, Things To Do In Salem,

It's 1692.Bridget Bishop is accused of witchcraft and YOU are the jury.

10/06/2024

Folks: If you need to change your tickets: there's a button on the bottom right of your confirmation that allows you to change your time. Looking forward to seeing you.

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