"The Pasadena Playhouse's leadership aims to choose a script within three weeks - not for a play to mount on the stage that went dark Feb. 7 because of financial woes, but for a legal scenario the company can follow as it tries to settle about $2 million in debt and eventually return to the boards."...

"The theme running throughout the three-week festival is … drawing attention to those cultures that naturally look to the Pacific rather than the Atlantic, whether that be a dance company from Auckland or orchestras specialising in the music of 15th-century [sic] Bolivia and Mexico." There will be top modern theatre companies from North and South America, Australian composer Brett Dean's new opera, an 18th-century German take on Moctezuma, and Porgy and Bess in French....

"Babies are pre-programmed to dance and to enjoy it, research by the University of York has shown. The study of 120 children aged between five months and two years found that babies spontaneously started moving to music and rhythmic beats. Scientists also found that the better the children were at moving in time with the music, the more they smiled."...