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HarperCollins announced today the acquisition of a currently untitled memoir by Barbara Cook, the noted actress, singer, and concert performer. Cook's collaborator will be New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood. The world rights deal was negotiated by Jonathan Burnham, Senior Vice President and Publisher, Harper, and Rakesh Satyal, Senior Editor, Harper; Cook's manager, Jeff Berger at Jeff Berger Management; and Isherwood's agent, David Kuhn at Kuhn Projects. The book will be published in the fall of 2012, the year of Cook's eighty-fifth birthday.

Hottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, February 6, 2011 - Sunday, February 6, 2011.

Some Enchanted Evening: The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein March 11-April 30, 2011

Just in time for Valentine's Day, the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts at Sacred Heart University presents Let's Fall in Love starring two of Broadway's most celebrated stars, Rebecca Luker (Mary Poppins, The Music Man and The Sound of Music) and Howard McGillin (Phantom of the Opera, She Loves Me and Anything Goes) on Saturday, February 12 (2011) at 8pm.

Reprise Theatre Company presents Barbara Cook in Concert. It will have one performance only on Monday, May 16 at 8:00 pm, at UCLA's Freud Playhouse. Barbara Cook in Concert is the latest in Reprise Theatre Company's tradition of presenting Broadway stars and legendary entertainers in concert, which have included Patti LuPone, Carol Burnett, Sutton Foster, Ben Vereen, Kristin Chenoweth, and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. 'Les Miserables,' 'Memphis,' 'Showboat' at Lyric Opera of Chicago, a double dose of 'Glee,' Darren Criss's 'Starship, 'Meet John Doe,' more....

After sweeping the 2008 Tony Awards and enchanting audiences throughout the country, the Lincoln Center Theater Production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC - featuring the largest orchestra of any Broadway production currently on tour - will close at Prudential Hall in the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) January 30, 2012.

Columbia University, School of the Arts, Theatre Arts Program invites you to attend William Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM directed by JAMES RUTHERFORD. James Rutherford (MFA 2011) collaborates with experimental puppetry and performance collective Piehole to question more romantic and lighthearted interpretations of A Midsummer Night's Dream by highlighting the play's sexual violence.

Columbia University School of the Arts, Theatre Arts Program Presents RIVERS AND TRIBUTARIES, Written and Directed by CARIN JEAN WHITE runs February 16-19, 2011

Stage773 announces performances taking place January - April 2011. Tickets are available at theStage773 box office, 1225 W. Belmont Ave., 773.327.5252 or online at Stage773.com.

Columbia University, School of the Arts, Theatre Arts Program invites you to attend William Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM directed by JAMES RUTHERFORD. James Rutherford (MFA 2011) collaborates with experimental puppetry and performance collective Piehole to question more romantic and lighthearted interpretations of A Midsummer Night's Dream by highlighting the play's sexual violence.

After sweeping the 2008 Tony Awards and enchanting audiences throughout the country, the Lincoln Center Theater Production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC - featuring the largest orchestra of any Broadway production currently on tour - will land at Prudential Hall in the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) for an eight performance run starting Wednesday, January 26, 2011.

Columbia University, School of the Arts, Theatre Arts Program invites you to attend William Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM directed by JAMES RUTHERFORD. James Rutherford (MFA 2011) collaborates with experimental puppetry and performance collective Piehole to question more romantic and lighthearted interpretations of A Midsummer Night's Dream by highlighting the play's sexual violence.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the world premiere of the new musical Death Takes a Holiday, with a book by Peter Stone & Thomas Meehan, music & lyrics by Maury Yeston, directed by Doug Hughes. Death Takes a Holiday is based on the dramatic play by Alberto Casella, rewritten for the American stage by Walter Ferris, and originally produced by Messrs. Shubert.

Way Off Broadway's 2011 Season, its 17th season of live first-class entertainment to Frederick, does not officially open until the theatre's production of the musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone takes its first bow on Friday, January 21st.

The singer-actress Raissa Katona Bennett explores the songbook of Jerome Kern in a new show, "Can't Help Singing - The Music of Jerome Kern," that premieres at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency on Thursday January 13.

RAISSA KATONA BENNETT BREATHING LIFE INTO KERN" AT FEINSTEIN'S THROUGH SATURDAY The singer-actress Raissa Katona Bennett shows how "actable" the music of Jerome Kern is in her delightful new show, "Can't Help Singing - The Music of Jerome Kern." Each song is a little play, and she's ready to feel every emotion as they occur, bringing us right up the emotional edge with her. At Thursday's premiere at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency, men melted and women swooned when she sang "Long Ago and Far Away," and "Why Do I Love You." An older gent exclaimed "hot dog!" several times at the end of several classics. The singers Lucy Arnaz, Karen Oberlin, Valerie Lemon and Christine Reisner were among the singers there to enjoy this show that plays through Saturday. "Can't Help Singing - The Music of Jerome Kern" is ably backed by music director Don Rebic on piano, Tom Hubbard on bass. The multi-threat actor/director/singer Eric Michael Gillett directs. After the show Bennett who was Christine on Broadway in "Phantom of the Opera," and was in the first national tours of "Cats" and "Parade," told us "Oh, I feel like I performed a two hour play in one hour!" Bennett also produces and is the 2010 Bistro Award-winning host of "The Concerts at Tudor City Greens," an outdoor series that features many of New York's most noted singers.

The singer-actress Raissa Katona Bennett explores the songbook of Jerome Kern in a new show, "Can't Help Singing - The Music of Jerome Kern," that premieres at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency on Thursday January 13.

Today, in this BWW Exclusive interview, we are investigating the iconic and incomparable career - in every arena of entertainment, as depicted in her PBS concert retrospective DIAHANN CARROLL: THE LADY, THE MUSIC, THE LEGEND - of Ms. Diahann Carroll. From the first African American Golden Globe winner, winning for the first network series to feature a fresh, non-Caucasian actress as the lead character, JULIA; to the co-starring in the films of George & Ira Gershwin's PORGY & BESS and Oscar Hammerstein's CARMEN JONES opposite the likes of Harry Belafonte and Sammy Davis Jr.; to her remarkable roles on Broadway in Harold Arlen and Truman Capote's HOUSE OF FLOWERS and Richard Rodgers's NO STRINGS all the way up to Andrew Lloyd Webber's SUNSET BLVD in the 1990s in Toronto - and that's not even mentioning her concert appearances everywhere in the world for the last fifty years as well as her lauded performance on USA's hit nighttime drama WHITE COLLAR, which she returns to this week. Also, don't forget her humanitarian work for breast cancer awareness! She has done it all, and blazed a new path for herself and everyone coming in her wake in order to do so. She is the lady. She is the music. She is the legend. She is Diahann Carroll - and what divinity that is.