Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

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- -Early honors: Composer-lyricist Jerry Herman (pictured), New York’s Signature Theatre, publicist Shirley Herz and actress Phyllis Newman win special Tony Awards. Nominees will be announced Tuesday.

-- Theatre of the Oppressed founder: Brazilian theater activist Augusto Boal is dead at 78.

-- Award winners: Bill T. Jones’ ‘Fela!’ and Lynn Nottage’s ‘Ruined’ are among winners of Lucille Lortel Awards.

-- Time for new letterhead: Don’t look now, but the A+D Museum has moved yet again.

-- On their toes: Hard-hit dance companies deal with the realities of the recession.

-- Support for administrators: In an initial report, a committee backs a plan to sell artwork and change the mission of Rose Museum at Brandeis University.

-- Age of Aquarius: The Broadway revival of ‘Hair’ is set to tour in 2010-11 season.

-- To the rescue: Impresario Giorgio Lalov hopes to bring opera back to Baltimore.

-- Welcome to the neighborhood: A new Broadway theater will open this fall with ‘Bye Bye Birdie.’

-- Moving forward: Plans proceed for the public-private Museum Park Plan in Miami.

-- Lisa Fung