By Bennett Liebman
A New Brain Reviews, Review Roundup: A NEW BRAIN at Barrington Stage Company (broadwayworld.com)
Honoring the Legacy of William Finn, ”A New Brain “ at Barrington Stage honors the legacy of William Finn | WAMC
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)
Bailing out the Theater, Op-ed: The US bails out other industries. Why not theaters? (chicagotribune.com)
Free Theater for All, We Need Free Theater for All (jacobin.com)
San Diego Theater Problems, Offstage drama: San Diego theaters reeling from one-two punch of falling revenue and rising costs - The San Diego Union-Tribune (sandiegouniontribune.com)
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, Tina Howe, Playwright Best Known for ‘Coastal Disturbances,’ Dies at 85 - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
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, Broadway-bound ‘Hippest Trip — The Soul Train Musical’ interrogates the great man myth | Datebook (sfchronicle.com)
Casting Sex Offenders in Shows with Minors, Community Theatre Under Fire for Knowingly Casting Sex Offender in Shows with Minors — OnStage Blog
Losing Subscribers, Hitting Theater Hard: The Loss of Subscribers Who Went to Everything - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
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, Letters: Not-for-profit theaters have ceased to exist because they’ve taken money from Broadway (chicagotribune.com)
Closings in Columbus, Are your favorite Columbus theaters at risk of closing forever? (dispatch.com)
Layoffs at Steppenwolf, Steppenwolf Theatre staff cuts announced in the wake of falling revenue, drop in attendance - Chicago Sun-Times (suntimes.com)