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Beth Henley’s “Jacksonian” and Thomas Bradshaw’s “Intimacy” will be part of the New Group’s 2013-14 season.    

National Trust for Historic Preservation named the Astrodome in Houston and a lighthouse on Martha’s Vineyard as two of the most endangered places in the United States.    

Joe Michaels, who has been the director for 18 years, was given a new job last week that portends more change to come.    

The Shakespeare in the Park production of “The Comedy of Errors,” directed by Daniel Sullivan, moves this mistaken-identity farce to a locale straight out of “Guys and Dolls.”    

Mr. Smith’s biggest hit, “Walk Don’t Run,” became famous in covers by other bands, notably the Ventures. Mr. Smith, the writer of “Walk, Don’t Run,” gave up his career in 1958 to care for his daughter.    

Kandinsky’s “Studie ze Improvisation 3’’ and Modgiliani’s 1916 portrait of the art dealer Paul Guillaume topped the auction.    

A report to Congress on the state of the humanities is a defense of a field that is falling out of favor on campuses.    

The animated “Futurama” begins its final season on Wednesday on Comedy Central.    

In Sara Farrington’s “Requiem for Black Marie,” it’s Bertolt Brecht’s women who do all the heavy lifting of authorship.    

On its first day, the audience for the revamped show was smaller than that for the previous show.    

“What Are We Worth? Shakespeare, Money and Morals” was billed as a town hall discussion at the Delacorte Theater.    

The biennial Boston Early Music Festival last week drew on home-grown and international talent.    

The Orchestra of the League of Composers/I.S.C.M. performed two world premieres as part of its Monday program at the Miller Theater.    

Rick Moranis stops worrying about being “too Jewish” on a new comedy album.    

Kevin McKenzie’s staging of “Swan Lake” returns to the Metropolitan Opera House with American Ballet Theater’s Polina Semionova and David Hallberg dancing the leads.    

Rebecca Lazier’s “Coming Together/Attica,” evoking the 1971 Attica Prison riot, was danced at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.    

A centennial celebration of Britten’s birth was at the center of the Chelsea Music Festival’s opening night on Friday.    

“Seven American Deaths and Disasters” transcribes radio and television broadcasts of painful events, from the Kennedy assassination to Sept. 11, as they unfurled on the air, live and unmediated.    

The prizes are meant to encourage the programming of contemporary works.    

With its 121 shows of many stripes, not counting the sets on the lesser stages, the four-day Bonnaroo music festival had something for everyone.