Monday Morning Pickup

Big News in Little Bits

Is mainstream theatre politically engaged enough? The debate rages, care of the Guardian.

Is the famous artist Damien Hirst a plagiarist? More from the Guardian.

Is Shakespeare's Globe Theatre finally putting on a play written by a woman? The first in 411 years? Yes!

With WaMu's collapse, what's happening, financially, to the Seattle Art Museum? Tumult, indeed.

What connects the Museum of History and Industry, the 520 bridge and Mayor McGinn? Plenty.

Tacoma's Broadway Center for the Performing Arts' season is about to kick off. The Tacoma Weekly takes note of some of their entertaining fare.

Speaking of theatre in South Puget Sound, what does the fall season have in store? Oodles.

Mmmm....deep fried beer.