An outdoor production of Molière’s “The Miser” at St. Columba’s Church this summer marked a joyous return of community theater to Inverness after two dark pandemic years. But nearly two weeks after the play closed on Labor Day, producer Sharron Drake hadn’t received the proceeds from ticket sales. 

Her emails and calls to the Seattle-based ticketing service Brown Paper Tickets were going into a “black hole of communication,” she said. Then a Google search…