Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

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-- Rated R: Filmmaker McG is in talks to bring Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s musical ‘Spring Awakening’ to the big screen.

-- Lawsuit filed: The family of painter George Grosz sues New York’s Museum of Modern Art for the return of his paintings.

-- Cultural honor: Writers Richard Price and T. Coraghessan Boyle, composer Stephen Hartke, architect Tod Williams and five others are inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

-- Put up or...: The Orange County Performing Arts Center board launches a $1-million challenge grant to attract donations from the community.

-- New leader: The Los Angeles County Arts Commission gets a new president.

-- Bilingual version: A national tour is planned for ‘West Side Story,’ one of Broadway’s hottest tickets.

-- You are there: Peter Sellars, Esa-Pekka Salonen and James Conlon via iPod.

-- A Princess Di video fountain? The Henry Moore Foundation is set to showcase proposals for public art that never was made.

-- Protest launched: The debate over the Dead Sea Scrolls is still very much alive.

-- Beam me up, Achim: Is Los Angeles Opera’s ‘Die Walkurie’ inspired by ‘Star Trek’?

-- Lisa Fung