Monster Mash: Alan Rickman’s Broadway play moving to West End?

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Transferring? Alan Rickman is said to be in talks to bring Theresa Rebeck’s ‘Seminar’ to London’s West End. The play is currently running on Broadway. (Daily Mail) Abrupt departure: The New England Conservatory said the director and conductor of its Youth Philharmonic Orchestra is leaving effective immediately. The abrupt departure comes after the discovery that a sex offender was hired as a videographer to record student performances during the last 10 years. (Associated Press)

Historic site: Officials in Belgium are attempting to save and restore a house where Vincent Van Gogh once resided. (The Art Newspaper)

Scandalous: Eric Nederlander, a member of the famous Broadway family, was arrested Thursday and accused of letting himself into his girlfriend’s apartment, pulling her hair and berating her. (New York Daily News)

Moneybags: Steve Cohen, the billionaire financier and art collector, is joining the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art. (Los Angeles Times)

It’s official: The Broadway production of ‘On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,’ starring Harry Connick Jr., has posted a closing date of Jan. 29. (Playbill)

Masterpiece: A work by Gerhard Richter, once believed to belong to collector Bernard Arnault, is being donated to the Israel Museum by its true owner, Lily Safra. (New York Times)

Public art: Keith Haring’s last surviving large-scale mural in Australia is the subject of a proposed conservation project. (The Art Newspaper)

Also in the L.A. Times: Theater critic Charles McNulty reviews ‘Red Hot Patriot,’ starring Kathleen Turner, at the Geffen Playhouse, and film critic Kenneth Turan reviews the 3-D movie ‘Pina.’

-- David Ng