– It will be “CSI: MSI” starting this spring, when an exhibition inspired by the hit TV crime show debuts at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. “The `CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’ Experience” is to feature representations of crime scenes, labs and autopsy rooms and displays of forensic techniques. The exhibition is set to run here May 25 to Sept. 3.
– Steppenwolf Theatre Company has canceled its spring production of Alan Bennett’s “Talking Heads” because the star, John Mahoney, has agreed to do a show in New York instead. Mahoney will star in Daniel Sullivan’s Roundabout Theater Company revival of the Craig Lucas play “A Prelude to a Kiss,” slated to open March 8 in the Roundabout’s American Airlines Theater. And there’s news of another Steppenwolf export to the East Coast. The Yale Repertory Theatre has announced that it will produce the Bruce Norris play “The Unmentionables” in May.
– “Oprah Winfrey Show” and National Geographic Channel correspondent Lisa Ling is engaged to Chicago doctor Paul Song. Ling and Song plan to marry this year in Los Angeles, Chris Albert, a rep for the National Geographic Channel, said. Song, 41, an oncologist, popped the question over the holidays at a Chicago restaurant to Ling, 33, with their families present, Albert said.
– Emilie de Ravin, who plays Claire Littleton on “Lost,” has separated from her husband after six months of marriage, her rep said Wednesday. The actress and actor Josh Janowicz, both 25, have no children.
– “The Megan Mullally Show” is finished after less than five months, NBC Universal Television Distribution said Wednesday.
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The Personals page was compiled by Emily Rosenbaum from Tribune news services and staff reports.
