® Avenue Q’s Scottish cousin? The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre is a hit at Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  

® Australian dance community mourns the loss of a young rising star. 

® Misha Berson of the Seattle Times gives us the skinny on why the press isn’t allowed at Young Frankenstein previews: “It stands to reason that when producers bring a monster-sized Young Frankenstein to town, they want a lot of time to tinker with it. Or that they want to do the tweaking as far from Broadway theater wags as possible. Early criticism counts: Stephen Sondheim’s most recent musical, Bounce,’has never reached Broadway, thanks to harsh buzz about its Washington, D.C., and Chicago tryouts.” 

® NYMF isn’t the only festival of new musicals out there. Seattle’s seventh annual Festival of New Musicals presents six new musicals this weekend. 

® Speaking of NYMF, Larry Pressgrove, who arranged the music and tickled the ivories for [title of show] has a new musical offering called The Angle of the Sun, which runs Sept. 17–29 at The Sage Theater. 

® Now THAT’s customer service: London theatre patron suffering from back pain told she should have bought a more expensive seat!! 

® Unconventional production of Faust by Prague’s homeless community. Says Jakub Balaban, director, “One of our fundamental ideas is combining different worlds, and different circles of people. For example, we have homeless people working with both professional artists and amateur artists in an auditorium with an underground rock band. And together it works.” 

® Highlights of some theatre happenings this weekend on the left coast. 

® Minneapolis’ famed Children’s Theatre Company names a new managing director.

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