This week actor Jeremy Piven takes his “I got mercury poisoning from eating too much fish and had to bail out of your play” argument before an arbiter as the play’s producers seek money from the hard-partying star.

Apparently we haven’t heard the usual whining and distorting associated with this silly case because the New York Post reports “everybody’s under a gag order.”

But as they say silence can be deadly and if the Post is right “the producers… are launching a sharper, more aggressive assault” against Piven and his claims this time around.

Whatever happens watchers of the Great White Way say, “he won’t work on Broadway again.”