Yahoo! News: ArtsArtsPLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Mic Pool (Playbill)- June 24, 2008 Playbill - Not too many people took notice of the veteran English sound designer Mic Pool's first work on Broadway, even though the play, Art, did win a Tony Award.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/playbill/20080624/en_pl... Weinstein Co. Eyes "Chocolat," "Shakespeare in Love," "Cinema Paradiso" as Future Musicals (Playbill)- June 24, 2008 Playbill - The Weinstein Company has a list of projects it hopes to bring to the Broadway stage, signaling the organization's move into a creative lead producer role rather than minority partner, as it was with August: Osage County, Boeing-Boeing and other legit shows.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/playbill/20080624/en_pl... Carlson, Menzel, Michele and Arden Sing Sheik & Sater's 'Nero' (Playbill)- June 24, 2008 Playbill - Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, Taboo's Jeffrey Carlson and Spring Awakening veteran Lea Michele will headline the Powerhouse Theatre reading of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's musical Nero.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/playbill/20080624/en_pl... 'Dirt', Prager, Kreisler, Judd, 'Mythellaneous' Announced for NYC's East to Edinburgh Fest (Playbill)- June 24, 2008 Playbill - Scotland-bound U.S. productions that will play the Edinbugh Festival Fringe in August will first stop at 59E59 Theaters in Manhattan July 8-27 for the fifth annual East to Edinburgh Festival.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/playbill/20080624/en_pl... Dody Goodman, Comedienne and Actress, Dead at 92 (Playbill)- June 24, 2008 Playbill - Dody Goodman, whose ditzy comic persona was well known to patrons of theatre, film and television from the 1950s on, died June 22 at the Actors Fund Home in New Jersey, a spokesperson for the Fund confirmed. Her age was thought to be 92 by many accounts, though the subject of her birthdate was something she was known to falsify throughout her career. Her agent said she was 94.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/playbill/20080624/en_pl... Butler, Crowley, Rogers, Collier, Kernan Start 'Misbehavin'' at Goodman (Playbill)- June 24, 2008 Playbill - Goodman Theatre's new production of Ain't Misbehavin', Richard Maltby, Jr. and Murray Horwitz's repackaging of the songs of Thomas "Fats" Waller, begins June 21 for a run to July 27 in Chicago.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/playbill/20080624/en_pl... Transylvanian Trio: Leavel, Ragusa, Sullivan to Join 'Young Frankenstein' (Playbill)- June 24, 2008 Playbill - Beth Leavel, Michele Ragusa and Kelly Sullivan will be the new leading ladies of Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein starting this summer at Broadway's Hilton Theatre.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/playbill/20080624/en_pl... PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW: Tony Tally (Playbill)- June 24, 2008 Playbill - Were there upsets Well, no, not unless you count Stew winning Best Book of a Musical for Passing Strange over Xanadu's Douglas Carter Beane (whom some - Cubby Bernstein - predicted would prevail); or Rob Ashford of Cry-Baby being beaten for Best Choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler for In The Heights. Nobody spit out their champagne over those results, so I'd say no: no upsets.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/playbill/20080624/en_pl... Gene Persson, Producer of 'Dutchman' and 'Charlie Brown', Dies at 74 (Playbill)- June 24, 2008 Playbill - Gene Persson, a theatre producer responsible for such diverse production's as LeRoi Jones' tense racial drama, Dutchman, and the musical, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, died on June 6 in Manhattan at a Times Square pizzeria. He was 74. A heart attack was the cause.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/playbill/20080624/en_pl... Roundabout Aims 'Hedda Gabler' Toward Broadway (Playbill)- June 24, 2008 Playbill - A "new interpretation" of Henrik Ibsen's 1890 classic Hedda Gabler, about a wife suffocating in her life of domesticity, is under consideration by Roundabout Theatre Company for a Broadway run in early 2009.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/arts/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/playbill/20080624/en_pl... |