Arts

A Christmas Story, The Musical!, conjuring the frosted magic of a classic 1940s holiday, gets its world premiere at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre beginning Nov. 20-Dec. 27. Full Story »

Enter Laughing, a recent hit for the York Theatre Company, is aiming for a Broadway bow during the 2010-11 season, according to the New York Times. Full Story »

The Tony Awards Administration Committee will assemble for the first time during the 2009-2010 season Dec. 10, according to a Tony Awards spokesperson. Full Story »

Playwrights deceased and long-honored, and young and rising, were praised to the skies this week. Full Story »

Columbia College Chicago's Center for Asian Arts and Media will produce the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song in summer 2010. Full Story »

The rare New York City revival of Sidney Howard's 1932 comedy The Late Christopher Bean, a satire of greedy small-town folk and corrupt art-world personalities, will get six extra performances Off-Broadway. Full Story »

Arena Stage's new production of The Fantasticks, directed by rising American director Amanda Dehnert, who places the musical in the world of an abandoned amusement park, begins previews Nov. 20 in Washington, DC. Full Story »

TORONTO (Reuters) - Collecting fine art is more than just a hobby for savvy investors who see the art world as a $50 billion vehicle for generating wealth, storing it and passing on to their heirs. Full Story »

PARIS (Reuters) - A second auction of art and furniture once owned by fashion guru Yves Saint Laurent has raised 8.9 million euros ($13.22 million), up to three times the estimated amount, auctioneers Christie's said on Friday. Full Story »

ROME (Reuters) - An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum announced on Friday. Full Story »

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A novel about life in New York City in the 1970s and a biography of U.S. tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt were among the winners at the United States 60th annual National Book Awards on Wednesday. Full Story »

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A large, protected harbor and a river route to the north made the tip of Manhattan an attractive spot for a Dutch settlement some 400 years ago. Full Story »

MALVERN, England (Reuters) - Ken Allcock, 66, had never seen an opera and his wife Eileen hadn't been in about 50 years, but both were enchanted by Handel's "Tolomeo," brought to their hometown of Malvern by English Touring Opera. Full Story »

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have officially signed on as co-producers of "Fela!," a musical about Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti that opens Monday (November 23) on Broadway. Full Story »

LONDON (Reuters) - The National Gallery in London, one of the world's great public collections, has put on display a seedy reconstruction of Amsterdam's Red Light District in a rare foray into contemporary installation art. Full Story »

West End star Simon Burke will replace Burke Moses as Capt. Von Trapp in the final weeks of the Toronto run of The Sound of Music, produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian and David Mirvish. Full Story »

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is ratcheting up pressure for imperial treasures to be repatriated, condemning overseas auctions of its relics and demanding they come home. Full Story »

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will present the Reduced Shakespeare Company in Completely Hollywood (abridged) this summer. Full Story »