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By Bennett Liebman

Dimming the Lights for Gavin Creel

Broadway Lights to Dim for Gavin Creel - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Explaining the Gavin Creel Controversy

Gavin Creel Broadway lights dimming controversy explained - Fast Company

Sunset Boulevard Has $1 million Gate

‘Sunset Boulevard’ cracks $1 million as Broadway’s collective gross and attendance soars (broadwaynews.com)

Broadway Box Office Hits Big Levels

Broadway: 'Sunset Boulevard' Hits $1M, Romeo +Juliet' Sells Out (hollywoodreporter.com)

Opera in Italian Means Work

Opera in Italian means ‘work’ (broadwaynews.com)

Our Town Revival Opens on Broadway

Our Town’ starring Katie Holmes review: A revival aimed at swing states - The Washington Post

An Our Town for All of Us

Review: ‘Our Town’ Starring Jim Parsons Is Still Avant-Garde After 86 Years - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Open Captioning at Romeo + Juliet

Broadway’s ‘Romeo + Juliet’ offering open captioning at every performance (broadwaynews.com)

Suffs Tops Billboard’s Chart

'Suffs' Musical Tops Billboard's Cast Albums Chart

Brody Grant Returns to The Outsiders

Broadway's Brody Grant Returning to 'The Outsiders' After Month Hiatus (variety.com)

Yellow Face Unmasks Identity Politics

Review | ‘Yellow Face’ with Daniel Dae Kim unmasks identity politics | amNewYork (amny.com)

Jonathan Groff to Play Bobby Darin

Jonathan Groff will lead Bobby Darin bio-musical on Broadway (broadwaynews.com)

Elton John on Tammy Faye

Elton John On Creating the 'Tammy Faye' Musical (hollywoodreporter.com)

The Romance of Left on Tenth

Delia Ephron, Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher on the Perilous Romance of Left on Tenth | Broadway Buzz | Broadway.com

Spousal Collaboration on Broadway

Jez Butterworth, Laura Donnelly on Broadway Collaboration | TIME

Playwrights Kick-Start Broadway Season

Playwrights kick-start New York's fall theater season - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

Alt-Rock to Broadway

Guster, Avett Brothers and Florence Welch are helping bring alt-rock to the musical theater stage | News, Sports, Jobs - The Nashua Telegraph

Making it on Broadway

What Are the Chances of Making It on Broadway? | Backstage

Workshopping Joy the Musical

JOY THE MUSICAL Holds Workshop Presentation Starring Betsy Wolfe (broadwayworld.com)

The Hills Are Alive with Women’s Plays

The Hills Are Alive...With the Sounds of Women’s Plays (ourtownny.com)

How Bull Durham Became a Musicall

How ‘Bull Durham’ became a musical and Durham became a thriving city (thehill.com)

Reopening the Mark Taper Forum

Reopening of the Mark Taper Forum with 'American Idiot' (ny1.com)

Grants  for Milwaukee Theater

Milwaukee Repertory Theater awarded a $1.9M Non-State Grant for Local Projects from the Wisconsin State Building Commission » Urban Milwaukee

Sing Street to London

Barbara Broccoli Transfers ‘Sing Street’ Musical To London (deadline.com)

Changing  Stage History Through Excavation

How the excavation of Shakespeare’s Curtain theatre has changed stage history | William Shakespeare | The Guardian

Kelly Bishop in London

‘I was always the sexy tootsie’: Kelly Bishop on Broadway hits, Gilmore Girls – and how to do the Dirty Dancing lift | Stage | The Guardian

Lehman Returns to the West End

Review Roundup: Did THE LEHMAN TRILOGY Dazzle the West End Again? (broadwayworld.com)

Proctors and Adirondack Theatre Fest Begin Collaboration

Proctors, Adirondack Theatre Fest exploring future collaborations (timesunion.com)