By Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

It’s nothing new to hear audiences complain about the high price of theater tickets, as well they should. But it gets your attention when a performer like Christopher Plummer, who has devoted so much of his career to the stage, weighs in on the issue, suggesting that the lack of affordable tickets is inhibiting attempts to broaden the audience for theater.

By June Wulff, Globe Staff

Evidently Shirley MacLaine brought more than her acting skills across the Pond when she joined the cast of “Downton Abbey.” The Oscar-winning actress who plays socialite Martha Levinson (the American mother of Elizabeth McGovern’s Lady Cora) also brought her spirituality and told the New York Daily News that “Highclere was haunted and the pictures came off the wall.”

By Doug Most, Globe Staff

Our Culture Desk blog has covered a mishmash of subjects this year. We thought it would be fun to look back at the 10 most popular posts, as judged by you, our readers, since you did the clicking.

By June Wulff, Globe Staff

By June Wulff, Globe Staff

“Gangnam Style” done Opera Style? Sure, why not. Everybody else has seemingly done a version of the South Korean rapper’s hit, so here’s one from Radio-Television of Slovenia, of an opera singer performing his own take on it.

By Doug Most, Globe Staff

Go and toss your laundry on the floor, knock a few crumbs off the counter, spill a drink on the rug and leave your bed a mess. Jack Klugman, who played Oscar Madison, the famously sloppy and slovenly roommate of Tony Randall’s Felix Ungar, died today. He was 90.

By June Wulff, Globe Staff

Cue the music because “Breakfast at Tiffany’s (“Moon river, wider than a mile...”), “A League of Their Own” (“Say, it’s only a paper moon...”), “A Christmas Story” (sorry, there’s no song about shooting your eye out), and 22 other movies have been added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

By Andrew Doerfler, Globe Correspondent

Fifty-two companies spanning seven countries will make their way to Becket next summer for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival’s 81st season. On Wednesday the festival announced its 2013 schedule, a bill that includes ballet, hip-hop, and some works that might not be called dance.

By Andrew Doerfler, Globe Correspondent

Photography Center of Cape Cod is challenging teens to pick up their cameras and enter the program’s photo competition. The photography center, which is part of the Cape Cod Art Association, will award the grand prize winner camera equipment from Hunt’s Photo and Video and $500 in cash. The competition is open to Massachusetts students in grades nine through 12. The deadline is March 11, 2013.

By June Wulff, Globe Staff

Have you ever dreamed of making it into the Guinness World Records book? What would your record-breaking achievement be? We’d try for the most apple pies eaten.

Here are the top 12 that made it into the book for 2012, “the most remarkable and headline-grabbing records from 2012,” according to the Guinness folks.

By June Wulff, Globe Staff

We hereby bestow the title of “Golden Girls” on Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (sorry, Betty White). The actresses host the Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 13, have been nominated for Best Actress in a Television Comedy or Musical, and made a fantastic gigglemercial about their host duties. The former SNL buddies deliver the pitch with a snooty British accent, are blinged out, and one of them shows some cleavage....

By June Wulff, Globe Staff

It was 1997 when Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and their Boston accents became household words with the release of their Oscar-winning movie “Good Will Hunting.” Damon played namesake Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT who could find his way around any math concept but had trouble navigating life. Robin Williams played Hunting’s psychologist, Sean Maguire. Ben Affleck was Damon’s buddy, Chuckie Sullivan; Minnie Driver played Skylar.

By Doug Most, Globe Staff

It isn’t often we get a glimpse behind the public face of the stars we watch every night on TV. Two of the biggest stars these days are Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who used to work together and now follow each other with their own shows on Comedy Central.

By June Wulff, Globe Staff

If the world doesn’t end on Dec. 21 - and if you survive the holidays - why not party on Dec. 31 at the annual First Night Boston celebration. The lineup for this year’s indoor/outdoor festival of 1,000 artists and 200 exhibitions and performances runs from 12 to 12 (that’s noon to midnight) in downtown Boston. Outdoor events are free with a First Night Button ($18, $15 online through Dec. 23, free under 4).