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Howard Sherman, a veteran of US institutional theatres, is a New York-based arts administrator, writer and advocate. He is director of the Baruch Performing Arts Center, a vigorous activist against theatrical censorship, and author of Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century. Howard has been a contributor to The Stage since 2012.

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Equity general secretary Paul W Fleming has called on Andy Burnham’s new government to take the arts seriously and recognise them as a "critical economic sector".