Songbird Barbara Cook opened the spring season at the Café Carlyle with a show she dubbed "a different can of peas." In her new program, under the collective banner "Tribute," Cook pays homage to the ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Barbara Cook, whose shimmering soprano made her one of Broadway's leading ingenues and later a major cabaret and concert interpreter of popular American song, has died. She was 89.

The New York Times raved, "Essential is precisely the word for Ms. Cook's contributions to the art of song in America and to the preservation of a true estimation of the legacy of the great Broadway ...

When Barbara Cook's silvery soprano voice lands on a phrase just so, a shaft of moonlight glints through Broadway and cabaret history. The light arrives, in Cook's wavering "Mostly Sondheim" show at ...

Broadway legend Barbara Cook, who died Tuesday at age 89, last performed in Tulsa in 2003, as part of a short-lived concert series by Tulsa Opera. By that time, Cook had established herself as a ...

Artists who died this year left behind gripping scenes, profound turns of phrase, unforgettable melodies and plenty of laughter. We pay tribute to a few of the most notable — through their own words.