This Week in Theater News
By Bennett Liebman
A New Brain Reviews
Review Roundup: A NEW BRAIN at Barrington Stage Company (broadwayworld.com)
Show Goes on in Vermont
After a Vermont playhouse flooded, the show went on (wishtv.com)
A Woke Witch Hunt, A woke witch hunt has taken over the arts | The Spectator
UK Theater Problems
It's Not Just America: UK's Theater System is Also Collapsing (broadwayworld.com)
Free Theater for All
We Need Free Theater for All (jacobin.com)
San Diego Theater Problems
Neil Patrick Harris and Tick Tick Boom
Neil Patrick Harris will direct Kennedy Center’s ‘Tick, tick...Boom!’ - The Washington Post
Obit for Tina Howe
New Cast for Little Shop
'Little Shop of Horrors' casts Constance Wu, Corbin Bleu in New York (usatoday.com)
Obit for Nathan Louis Jackson
Playwright and Screenwriter Nathan Louis Jackson Passes Away at 44 (broadwayworld.com)
Debut of Edith Wharton Play
A Lost Edith Wharton Play Debuts on Stage for the First Time | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
Cell Phones at Theaters
On the Scourge of Cell Phones at Live Performances (phillymag.com)
Bartenders Sue the Shuberts
Broadway bartenders sue NYC's Shubert Organization (nypost.com)
Going Gonzo in La Jolla
La Jolla Playhouse goes gonzo for world premiere musical | KPBS Public Media
Da Vinci to Broadway, Story of the Week: Is The Da Vinci Code Headed to Broadway? - TheaterMania.com
Making Here We Are
How Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Here We Are’ Musical Was Made (vulture.com)
Need for a New Audience
Ross: Theater needs to change to adapt to a new audience - MyNorthwest.com
The Soul Train Musical
Casting Sex Offenders in Shows with Minors
Community Theatre Under Fire for Knowingly Casting Sex Offender in Shows with Minors — OnStage Blog
Losing Subscribers
Remembering Ron Cephas Jones
AMERICAN THEATRE | 3 Things to Know About the Miracle That Was Ron Cephas Jones
Theatre of Politics
AMERICAN THEATRE | The Theatre of Politics, or the Politics of Theatre? Yes.
The Broadway Box Office
‘El Mago Pop,’ ‘Funny Girl’ break house records as overall box office increases (broadwaynews.com)
Problems for Not-For-Profits
Closings in Columbus
Are your favorite Columbus theaters at risk of closing forever? (dispatch.com)
Layoffs at Steppenwolf