Arts, Briefly: Footnotes. When “Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps” makes its move from the Cort Theater to the Helen Hayes Theater in January, Sam Robards, who stars (with Francesca Faridany, above) in the satirical adaptation of Hitchcock’s film, will be taking one more step: out of the show. But producers have named a replacement: Sean Mahon, who made his Broadway debut last season in “The Seafarer,” will take over the role of Richard Hannay when “The 39 Steps” opens in its new home on Jan. 21. ... The Australian composer Brett Dean has won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for his violin concerto “The Lost Art of Letter Writing.” The award, granted annually by the University of Louisville, comes with a $200,000 prize. Mr. Dean’s concerto, commissioned by the Cologne Philharmonie and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra for the violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, was inspired by letters written by Brahms, Hugo Wolf, van Gogh and the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.

Arts, Briefly: Football Dominates the Nightly Ratings. Football topped the ratings on Sunday, boosting CBS and NBC during prime time.

Arts, Briefly: Open Ears, Cover Eyes: Jesus Lizard Returns. The Jesus Lizard, the provocative and unpredictable Chicago rock ’n’ roll band, has announced it is reuniting.

Arts, Briefly: Travis Barker, DJ AM Reunite After Crash. The musician Travis Barker and the D.J. Adam Goldstein have announced that they will play their first show together since they were in a post-concert plane crash in September.

Arts, Briefly: Which Way to Cinema Street?. Cinema Street (known locally as “Rue de Cinéma”) will be dedicated in Paris on Friday by Mayor Bertrand Delanoë.

Arts, Briefly: Live Earth India Concert Canceled After Attacks. The Live Earth India concert, scheduled for Saturday in Mumbai, has been canceled because of last week’s deadly attacks on that city.

Arts, Briefly: Bolshoi Reopening Is Delayed Again. Further problems in the renovation of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow have delayed its planned reopening until 2011.

Arts, Briefly: Bartlett Sher to Direct August Wilson Revival. Bartlett Sher’s next project for Lincoln Center Theater will be a revival of the August Wilson play “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.”

Arts, Briefly: Schoenfeld Successor May Be Named Tuesday. Within the theater world the question of who will succeed Gerald Schoenfeld has all the high drama and mystery of a seat-gripping whodunit.

Arts, Briefly: Multimedia Artist Wins Turner Prize. Mark Leckey won the 2008 Turner Prize on Monday.

Preserving the City: Houses of Worship Choosing to Avoid Landmark Status. Many argue that the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has not done enough to protect churches from the overheated real estate market.

Music Review | Jean Grae: A Hip-Hop Classicist Defies Her Meager Turnout. The rapper Jean Grae wasn’t solely responsible for the poor turnout at her show. But she did seem to take it as a personal slight before she accepted it as a challenge.

Theater Review | 'Parking Lot Lonely Heart': Escort-Hiring Millionaire Says Sex Is Not His Objective. An awful lot of scene changes and one overused plot device keep Colin McKenna’s play from achieving the escalating tension it’s going for.

Critic's Choice: New DVDs: Douglas Fairbanks. With his boundless energy and incandescent smile, Fairbanks counts among the earliest major performers to emerge in feature-length film.

Dance Review | San Francisco Ballet: Where Peasants Are Graceful, Dukes Deceitful and Specters Vengeful. San Francisco Ballet showed technical brilliance but never any excess of force during its performances of “Giselle” at the Kennedy Center Opera House in Washington.

Report Ties Children’s Use of Media to Their Health. A review of 173 studies found that more time with television, films, video games, magazines, music and the Internet was linked to rises in childhood obesity, tobacco use and sexual behavior.

Music Review | New York Youth Symphony: Young Hands in the Center of an Unforgiving Spotlight. The orchestra’s music director, Ryan McAdams, put his young players in what could have been an unforgiving spotlight.

Television Review | 'Shatner’s Raw Nerve': Captain’s Log: Celebrity Universe Probed for Signs of Offbeat Life. William Shatner’s latest cultural contribution, a talk show titled “Shatner’s Raw Nerve,” begins Tuesday on the Bio channel.

Visitor Center Review: The Pursuit of Expansiveness Guides the Capitol’s New Visitor Center. The new Capitol Visitor Center in Washington has more than doubled the building’s footprint and is expected to increase its annual visitors to more than three million.

The TV Watch: A Concession Wrapped in an Acceptance. For some viewers, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech was the moment when she finally conceded the election for real.

Getting to Carnegie via YouTube. A project that will allow users to audition by uploading videos of themselves performing a composition by Tan Dun was announced on Monday in London and New York.

Books of The Times: It’s Still Making the World Go ’Round. Niall Ferguson’s latest book, “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World,” went to press in May 2008, but it shrewdly anticipates many aspects of the current financial crisis.

Preservation and Development, Engaged in a Delicate Dance. Over a decade of whirlwind development, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has repeatedly played dance partner to a potent mix of preservationists, developers and city politicians.

Forget Citigroup, Puppet Show Needs a Bailout. California’s economy has taken a toll on a marionette show that is a staple of a Los Angeleno childhood.