They’re about where crowds actually come from now — and it’s almost never through the front door. Poetry is having its biggest moment in decades, built by performance poets on TikTok and Instagram rather than by publishers (The Guardian). Jellicle Ball filled every seat it had and still had to close, because a Broadway show is a start-up carrying fixed rent (The New York Times). And developmental programs — where new work figures out who it’s for — are disappearing from American theatre at an alarming rate (American Theatre). Meanwhile, Britain’s Ministry of Justice has spent £50,000 scrubbing a Banksy off a heritage listed wall (BBC).