Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

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-- Arts advocate: Quincy Jones calls for a plan of action to ensure that children are exposed to the importance of arts in America.

-- Anonymous gift: Chapman University in Orange receives $25 million for a new performing arts center.

-- Audience will stay dry: Los Angeles soprano Juliana Snapper unveils plans for an underwater opera in Manchester, England.

-- Close, but no cigar: Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, the country’s national art museum, has a bit of a problem with reproductions.

-- Troubling discovery: Nazi-era looted art found in Dresden State Art collection.

-- Yet another award for ‘Billy’: Outer Critics Circle honors ‘Billy Elliot,’ ‘Ruined,’ ‘God of Carnage.’

-- Here we go again: Theatre World awards honor -- guess who -- ‘Billy Elliot’ dancers, 11 others.

-- Milestone reached: New York’s Lincoln Center launches yearlong 50th anniversary celebration.

-- Puppet maker dies: Evgenios Spatharis, a Greek master of shadow-puppet theater, dies at 85.

-- Harmony and understanding?: Did ‘Hair’ co-creator snub the original director of the musical?

-- Ending the dispute: Orange County Performing Arts Center settles lawsuit over construction cost overruns.

-- On display: Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘The Yankee Driver’ will be among the new acquisitions on view at the Huntington’s new gallery.

-- Lisa Fung

Photo: Quincy Jones. Credit: Paul Buck / EPA