Monster Mash: ‘King’s Speech’ on Broadway; Ai Weiwei tweets again

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Cashing in: ‘The King’s Speech’ -- the play from which the Oscar-winning movie was developed -- appears to be headed for Broadway in the fall of 2012. (Showbiz 411)

Busy fingers: Artist Ai Weiwei has returned to Twitter for the first time since being released by Chinese officials in June. (BBC News)

Popular: The 25th-anniversary touring production of ‘Les Miserables’ has broken records at the Ahmanson Theatre. (Los Angeles Times)

Public art: A group of artists is working to build the world’s largest working clock to go on display at the Burning Man Festival this month. (Sacramento Bee)

Circular: Richard Serra’s ‘Sequence’ sculpture gets a new home in Stanford University after leaving L.A. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Listen in: Audio of the New York Philharmonic’s June performance of ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ by Czech composer Leos Janacek is online. (NPR)

Alois and Klara: An online auctioneer is hoping to sell portraits of Adolf Hitler’s parents. (Art Info)

Money trouble: The Edgar Allan Poe home and museum in Baltimore is in danger of shutting down due to a lack of funds. (New York Times)

Blanche: Nicole Ari Parker has been cast alongside Blair Underwood in the upcoming Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ ‘A Streetcar Named Desire.’ (Playbill)

Back from the dead?: The bankrupt Syracuse Symphony could see another life thanks to plans by Syracuse University. (Syracuse Post-Standard)

Hardly masterpieces: Affordable art is becoming more readily available to consumers. (Los Angeles Times)

Also in the L.A. Times: Charles McNulty reviews ‘Hairspray’ at the Hollywood Bowl; Father Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries, is preparing a stage version of his 2010 memoirs for this week’s Ojai Playwrights Conference.

-- David Ng