Pinocchio News

Here's some of what's still to come this weekend: The Magnetic Theatre is bringing down the curtain on its home in the River Arts District tonight.

Thursday-Saturday: New York's Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion is earning well-deserved recognition for deeply personal and relevant work.

Austin Winter, age 17, from Milwaukee, appears in First Stage's PINKALICIOUS THE MUSICAL, a fun-loving musical based on the popular book of the same name by Victoria Kann and Elizabeth Kann, playing at the Todd Wehr Theater at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts through March 27.

Spring break: Pinocchio Art School and Dance Addicts in the Heights are teaming up to offer the Art and Dance Fusion spring break camp for kids, according to Pinocchio teacher Masha Tikhonova, right, shown here with Nadia Prevalova at the art school.

Please make it stop. Since the billion-dollar success of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Hollywood has been churning out retooled fairy tale blockbusters at a furious rate, and most can't escape the economic, rather than artistic, calculus behind their creation.