Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

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--Acting teacher Milton Katselas (left), who founded the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school in 1978, died of heart failure Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

--Lauren Graham of ‘Gilmore Girls’ will play Miss Adelaide in the upcoming Broadway revival of ‘Guys and Dolls.’ Des McAnuff, former artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse, is directing.

--A memorial service for artist Robert Rauschenberg, who died in May, was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday.

--The former director of the American Indian Museum has agreed to repay the Smithsonian for expenditures not ‘in keeping with the prudence demanded of a nonprofit leader.’

--Matt Cavanaugh, who was seen last year in ‘A Catered Affair’ at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre and on Broadway, will play Tony in the upcoming Broadway revival of ‘West Side Story.’

--Raphael’s 1506 ‘The Madonna of the Goldfinch’ will return to Florence’s Uffizi Gallery ‘like a prodigal daughter’ after a 10-year restoration.

--New York’s Metropolitan Opera has received a technical Emmy Award for its series ‘The Met: Live in HD.’

--A New York financier will foot the bill for an exhibition of Michelangelo drawings and papers.

--Raphael Vinoly’s first completed building in Britain, the Curve Theatre, opens in Leicester.

--Lisa Fung

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