In June, good things were starting to happen at the Flea. Now, the downtown theater company is in crisis. @Helen_E_Shaw reports vult.re/3a3oZyc
Without warning, on Dec. 2, the Flea's board unilaterally dissolved its artists’ programs, cutting loose over a hundred affiliated theater-makers vulture.com/2020/12/artist…
Ran Xia, a resident director at the Flea till the purge, notes that the theater blanked all its social-media accounts and wiped the Bats from its web page just before the abrupt dismissal notification: vulture.com/2020/12/artist… 
Five months ago, good things were starting to happen at the Flea Theater: vulture.com/2020/12/artist…
A week ago, artists at the Flea found out (many via the Twitter grapevine) that they had been fired from jobs that didn’t pay in the first place: vulture.com/2020/12/artist…
Now, a tentative discussion has begun about bringing the Fled back to the Flea — this time as a self-contained, self-programming resident company. And if there’s hope, then there’s hope for other theaters in need of their own radical refashionings vulture.com/2020/12/artist…
On the artists vs. the Flea Theater, @Helen_E_Shaw reports: vulture.com/2020/12/artist…
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