Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

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-- Financial woes force Opera Pacific to cancel its remaining season, which was to include ‘Salome’ and ‘The Grapes of Wrath.’

-- The Broadway musical ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ will close Nov. 16 after only 33 previews and 68 regular performances, while Broadway braces for tough times.

-- The largest collection of British social and political cartoons will be available for viewing free on the Internet.

-- FCC’s ruling to open up public airwaves delivers a blow to Broadway.

-- Thom Mayne’s Morphosis pushes boundaries with its first project in China, the Giant Group Pharmaceutical Campus.

-- Another slow day at the auction, as a large percentage of artworks go unsold at Sotheby’s and Christie’s in New York.

-- A sketch of Winnie-the-Pooh and pals Tigger and Piglet sells at auction for $50,000.

-- Actors’ Gang artistic director Tim Robbins runs into some trouble when trying to vote in New York on Tuesday. Video here.

-- An investigation finds that the Tate Gallery in 1967 rejected an offer of 30 paintings from the late artist Mark Rothko.

-- Want to raise money? Pose nude. Royal Opera House performers strip down for a charity calendar.

-- Kevin Spacey, Alan Rickman and Kenneth Branagh are in the running for best actor honors in this year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

-- Lisa Fung

Top photo: A scene from Opera Pacific’s production of ‘The Barber of Seville,’ the sole production of its 2008-09 season. Credit: Nicholas Koon