Monster Mash: Dodgers’ Don Mattingly in ‘Nutcracker’; Warhol tops S&P
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Holiday spirit: Dodgers manager Don Mattingly traveled to his hometown in Indiana to perform in a local production of ‘The Nutcracker’ ballet. (NBC Los Angeles)
Good investments: Art by Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 during the last 10 years, according to a new measure. (Bloomberg)
Next project: Filmmaker Charlie Kaufman, who took us inside John Malkovich’s head with ‘Being John Malkovich,’ is talking about making a movie musical. (Guardian)
Hard times: The Los Angeles area’s arts and entertainment industries lost thousands of jobs from 2007 to 2010, according to a study. (Los Angeles Times)
Getting off the ground: The Weinstein Co. is moving forward with its long-gestating stage musical ‘Finding Neverland,’ which had been set to run at LaJolla Playhouse. (New York Times)
Missing: Thieves have stolen a work of public art in Britain by artist Barbara Hepworth. (Telegraph)
Cash infusion: The Smithsonian Institution is receiving a $52-million increase in funding from Congress for 2012, with the boost primarily devoted to building a museum on the National Mall devoted to black history. (Los Angeles Times)
Hoop dreams: Producers have found the actor to play Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson in the Broadway-bound play ‘Magic/Bird.’ (Playbill)
Meeting of the minds: An international cultural summit will be held during the next Edinburgh International Festival. (The Stage UK)
More is more: New York is getting another international theater festival. (New York Times)
Back to the stage: Christina Ricci will appear in a New York production of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ opposite Bebe Neuwirth. (Broadway World)
Donation: The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore has received a gift of 260 objects of enameled Russian silver. (Baltimore Sun)
Reprising her role: Elizabeth Marvel, who starred in the off-Broadway production of ‘Other Desert Cities,’ will return to the play in its Broadway incarnation in March to replace Rachel Griffiths. (Theatermania)
Passings: Gene Summers, the modernist architect, has died at age 83; Heidi Helen Davis, an actress, acting teacher and stage director who had a long association with the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum has died at age 60.
Also in the L.A. Times: An appreciation of the late playwright and former Czech president Vaclav Havel.
-- David Ng
