Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

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-- Upload, upload, upload: YouTube Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas, makes its debut at Carnegie Hall

-- Cultural exchange: Getty Museum gets its first loans of antiquities from Italy.

-- Dreaming of a prize?: PBS to air ‘In the Heights: Chasing Broadway’s Dream,’ a documentary of the Broadway musical and rumored Pulitzer short-lister, on May 27.

-- Excavation set: Archaeologists will search sites for possible Cleopatra tomb.

-- Sharing artwork: Spain’s Reina Sofía and Prado strike historic loan deal on Goya prints.

-- $61,000 award: Photographer Robert Adams wins Hasselblad Prize.

-- Bad news: Economic concerns lead to $1.5 million in cuts at the St. Louis Art Museum.

-- Starry cast: Audra McDonald and Raul Esparza join Anne Hathaway in ‘Twelfth Night’ at Shakespeare in the Park.

-- Not a joke: Pasadena Playhouse adds world premiere musical ‘Laughing Matters’ to its 2009 season.

-- Show finds a home: ‘Vanities: A New Musical,’ which had its premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse, lands off Broadway

-- At it again: Achim Freyer continues to shake up the opera world with a 3-D version of ‘Don Giovanni.’

-- Lisa Fung