Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

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-- It’s an honor just to be nominated: Britain’s Olivier Award nominee list includes several American works -- ‘August Osage County,’ ‘Jersey Boys,’ ‘Fat Pig’ and ‘La Cage aux Folles.’

-- And now comes the move: Old Vic’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s ‘The Norman Conquests’ -- an Olivier nominee -- announces Broadway transfer.

-- Can’t we all get along? William Friedkin pulls out of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ opera at Milan’s La Scala.

-- Psssst--wanna buy a Tony Award?

-- String ‘em up: Vandals scratch a name into Anish Kapoor’s ‘bean’ sculpture, ‘Cloudgate,’ at Millennium Park in Chicago.

-- Is no ‘art’ safe? Vandals also wreck a Ronald McDonald statue.

-- Lukas Foss, the American composer, conductor and pianist who directed half a dozen Ojai Music Festivals, dies at 86.

-- More on Brandeis University’s Rose Museum art sale: Donors are mad; museum director is too.

-- Help is on the way: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., launches ‘Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative,’ a program designed to offer emergency planning assistance to struggling arts organizations.

-- Everyone loves a bargain: New series of lower-priced, limited-run performances scheduled at Kirk Douglas Theatre.

-- The Tate Britain loans 80 works by J.M.W. Turner to China.

-- Attention ‘CSI’ fans: William Petersen is part of the new season at Steppenwolf Theatre.

-- Smile: A date is finally set for the opening of the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City.

-- Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim reach agreement on ownership of Picasso paintings.

-- Financial crisis claims another: Salzburg Art Fair is called off.

-- Information overload? Why are classical music programs so tough to read?

-- Lisa Fung