Monster Mash: Susan Boyle leaves hospital; Tony Award protest; Marin Alsop stays on

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-- Angry writers: Dramatists Guild President Stephen Schwartz, left, says the group objects to the presentation of best book of a musical award during the un-televised Tony preshow event Sunday.

-- What you won’t see: Brian Stokes Mitchell and Laura Benanti host the Tony Awards preshow event.

-- Conspiracy theory: Susan Boyle leaves the hospital, while some suggest YouTube voting line mixup led to the singer’s loss on ‘Britain’s Got Talent.’

-- Staying on: Marin Alsop signs on to remain with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra through 2015.

-- Scaling back: Venice Biennale opens Sunday amid economically uncertain times for art world.

-- If it happened today: On the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square standoff, Christopher Hawthorne considers mass protest in an Internet Age.

-- Architecture and music: Mark Swed takes a look at the new Opera House in Oslo and Copenhagen’s newest Koncerthuset.

-- Returning art: Austrian museum returns looted Klimt portrait worth $15 million to heirs of Nazi victim.

-- Better late than never: Police in Venice, Italy, recover a Renoir painting 25 years after it was stolen.

-- Hooray for Hollywood: National Theatre of London’s production of ‘Phèdre,’ starring Helen Mirren, can be seen in L.A. after all.

-- Curator dies: Kenneth E. Stager, curator of birds and mammals at L.A. County Natural History Museum, dies at 94.

-- Lisa Fung