Barbara Cook News

B ARBARA COOK - recently described by one critic as "probably the greatest living interpreter of the musical theater songbook" - will sing Broadway standards and holiday favorites at the Westchester Philharmonic's annual Winter Pops concert on Dec.

Norm Lewis, who grew up in Eatonville and, as far as I know, is the only former Orlando Sentinel employee to appear on Broadway, has been cast in the new high-profile Stephen Sondheim revue, Sondheim on Sondheim , which opens on Broadway this spring.

The Best of San Francisco Stage, Film, Fashion, Dining, Travel, Business, Philanthropy, and Governance - Challah Is Taken Monday 30th of November 2009

A WARNING to sticklers for strict narrative: this column is a blatant mashup. Contemporary pop fans will understand the terminology, but for others - say, those more likely to attend to the musings of theater critics - some explanation might be required.

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, singer Barbara Cook, and other "superstars" celebrated soprano Marilyn Horne, composer John Adams, and other opera greats at the NEA Opera Honors last night.

No one doubts that Igor Stravinsky's collaboration with the Ballets Russes early last century set the standards for most of the innovations in dance as an art form.

Since Queer as Folk went of the air, Peter Paige has been taking one acting challenge after another.

"Extraordinary." That's what singer Barbara Cook thinks of Rebecca Luker's take on Maury Yeston's "Unusual Way," one of the songs tackled on her new CD, "Greenwich Time." SPECIAL Rebecca Luker "I chose that word carefully," Cook says on the liner notes.

Sondheim on Sondheim , a new Broadway musical starring Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams, Michael Arden and Leslie Kritzer, will premiere at Broadway's Studio 54 in spring 2010 in a production directed and conceived by James Lapine with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

To celebrate its 17-year collaboration with Tony Award winner Barbara Cook, DRG Records will release the six-disc "The Essential Barbara Cook Collection" Oct.