By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein, Globe Staff

Academy Award nominee and Rhode Island native Viola Davis is the star who keeps on giving back. Already slated to deliver the commencement address at Providence College on Sunday, Davis will now take the stage May 23 for “An Evening with Viola Davis,’’ a fund-raiser for Community Preparatory School in south Providence. . .

Friends, family, and colleagues of the late David Wheeler turned out for a memorial service at the American Repertory Theater celebrating his life and achievements as a director and as founder of the Theatre Company of Boston. We hear that Monday night dozens of collaborators tearfully shared memories and anecdotes, and several of the biggest names in theater and film...

In a brief, colorful ceremony at Fenway Park Monday, Takeshi Hikihara, the Consul General of Japan in Boston, and his wife, Hammi Hikihara presented the Red Sox with a sapling cherry tree. Dressed in elegant kimonos, the Hikiharas offered the gift to Red Sox President and CEO Larry Lucchino, pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, and team manager Bobby Valentine ...

Oy vey. Does Gisele Bundchen ever age? Or wrinkle, or sag? The answer, if the new cover of Paris Vogue is any indication, is not yet. The mega model is shot topless from behind for the mag’s new “Health” issue, her shapely backside lightly coated with sand. Tom Brady’s wife wears a tiny bikini bottom in the photo, shot by famed fashion photographers...

NBC trotted out local stars during its upfront presentation on Monday. Burlington’s Amy Poehler was there to support her show “Parks & Recreation,” which has been renewed. NBC hasn’t released any news about the pilot for the comedy “Lady Friends,” which was to star Arlington’s Rachel Dratch. Unfortunately, in the world of television pilots, no news is not good news. “Lady Friends” was also supposed to star “Good Will Hunting” actress Minnie Driver.

Remember Aardu, the wallaby that escaped from the Stone Zoo in 1990 and went exploring fot 11 days? The infamous Australian animal’s story lives on in Sheila S. Cunningham’s new book, “Willow’s Walkabout: A Children’s Guide to Boston.”

The recent Green Street Studios 20th anniversary celebration featured a night of memorable dance, but after the performances were over, revelers hurried out of the black box theater to attend a festive reception with bites and bubbly. Green Street supporter Elaine Shannon, of Brookline, grinned for the camera with her daughter Lila Shannon. Nearby, Contrapose ...

Relax, that ruckus on Utica Street wasn’t real and there were no arrests. Monday was just the final day of filming for “Skinheads in Love,” and director Dirk Craft was shooting a particularly rough fight scene. According to producer Chris Petit, the film, which is based on a comic by Bob Fingerman, is a “punk rock sex comedy” about rival New York rockers in the ’90s. It stars Jennifer Daley, Edgar Fox, and Vanessa Leigh.

Growing up in Iowa, Brandon Routh never knew much about lacrosse. He does now. The actor famous for playing the Man of Steel in “Superman Returns” was in Boston Monday for a screening of the made-in-Massachusetts movie “Crooked Arrows,” a feel-good flick about a Native American high school lacrosse team’s battle against a rival prep school.

Pan-Massachusetts Challenge founder Billy Starr threw a party for hundreds of cyclists who helped raise money for the new Yawkey Center for Cancer Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The cyclists raised 15 percent of the $1.2 billion capital campaign for the Yawkey Center.

The American Repertory Theater celebrated the life of David Wheeler with a memorial service Monday, and his friends and former colleagues fondly recalled the founder of the Theatre Company of Boston. Among those slated to appear were Paul Guilfoyle, who planned to introduce a video from Wheeler’s film “The Local Stigmatic” (starring Guilfoyle and Al Pacino), as well as....

Before the Go-Go’s Mother’s Day gig at the Wilbur Theatre, frontwoman Belinda Carlisle stopped by Sandy Poirier’s South Boston salon Shag for a fresh cut. We’re told the band -- Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock and Kathy Valentine – put on a hits-heavy show for their enthusiastic fans.

Pats linebacker Jerod Mayo and Miss Massachusetts USA Natalie Pietrzak were among the folks who dropped by the Greatest Bar over the weekend for one of the “Dirty Water” parties thrown by bar owner Billy Fairweather.

Pops maestro Keith Lockhart shared a laugh backstage at Symphony Hall with Joslin Diabetes Center president John Brooks and David Gomes, a patient whose mom, North End restaurateur Carla Gomes, was honored at Joslin’s annual Evening at Pops. The owner of Antico Forno and Terra Mia, Gomes organized “CityFeast,” a North End noshfest benefiting Joslin.

Michael Mayer, the Tony-winning director of “Spring Awakening” (and also of “American Idiot” and NBC’s underwhelming musical drama “Smash”), received an honorary degree at Boston Conservatory’s commencement over the weekend. Mayer also had a chance to chat with theater grads Chelsea Turbin and John Krause, both of whom are joining the national tour of “American Idiot” this summer.

How much longer might Tom Brady play? Turns out his wife is wondering that same thing. In an interview with Sports Illustrated’s Peter King, Brady answers the question this way: “My wife [Gisele Bundchen] said to me, ‘When I met you [in 2006], you said you wanted to play 10 more years. How come that number never goes down?’” says Brady....

A model who looks a bit like a girl on fire struts down the catwalk at the MassArt 2012 Fashion Show, “Reveal,” on Friday. The new Revere Hotel hosted the event.

Proud parents and friends thronged Space 57, the theater at the new Revere Hotel, as dozens of models strode the catwalk at “Reveal,” the year-end MassArt student fashion show. This year, for the first time, the extravaganza included creative pieces by sophomores and juniors, but it was the graduating seniors who grabbed the spotlight. Design standouts included: Zachary Allen...

When Ben Anderson was asked if he’d like to shoot a video with young cancer patients at Seattle Children’s Hospital, he said sure. “I’m usually down for doing anything,” says Anderson, who grew up in Westwood and attends Seattle University. “It seemed like a good idea.” Oh, it was a good idea alright...

A Chicago jury on Friday convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson’s former brother-in-law of murdering her mother, brother, and 7-year-old nephew in what prosecutors’ described as an act of vengeance by a jilted husband...