Willa Kim, a two-time Tony winning costume designer who crowned chorines with longhorns and draped Duke Ellington’s hoofers in ermine and feather boas, died Friday in Washington state, where she had been staying with a niece on Vashon Island, according to the New York Times. She was 99 and had been in poor…

UPDATE to EXCLUSIVE with confirmation: Barbara Cook Then And Now, a show that unites the acclaimed Broadway star with two equally legendary Broadway creatives — author-director James Lapine and director-choreographer Tommy Tune — will not open this spring as planned, I’ve learned. The show, which was to have begun…

EXCLUSIVE: Tommy Tune, the tall Texan who owns 10 Tony Awards and belongs to that rarest breed of Broadway fauna, the director-choreographer, is looking for work. A chorus dancer-turned-star (he has won Tonys as leading and featured actor as well as director and choreographer, on such shows as Nine, The Will Rogers Fol…

Barbara Cook, indelibly River City librarian Marian Paroo opposite Robert Preston own Broadway in The Music Man and Cunegonde in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, will return to the stage next month to share the stories and songs that shaped her life and career in Barbara Cook: Then and Now, described as “a candid and…

He won’t get to deliver it on the CBS broadcast, but Tony Lifetime Achievement honoree Tommy Tune just delivered his acceptance speech at Radio City Music Hall: "Right now I'm thinking of Texas in the 50s. You see, my father's great dream for me was the same as every Texas father's dream for their first born son…

Cooper, a Tony nominee for his title performance in a hit revival of The Elephant Man, and Schilling, the Orange Is The New Black star who braved off-Broadway in a revival of Ivan Turgenyev’s A Month In The Country, have joined the roster of presenters for the 69th annual Tony Awards. The shebang will be broadcast by…

Nine-time Tony winner Tommy Tune will receive the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre during the 2015 Tony Awards on June 7 on CBS. It’s the latest lifetime honor for the iconic Broadway performer/choreographer/director, who is so big in NYC theater circles after more than 50 years in the…

The invaluable Encores! series brought back Lady Be Good, in 1924 the first Broadway outing by brothers George (music) and Ira (lyrics) Gershwin. Don’t expect a commercial transfer from this bit of silliness, lovingly if inconsequentially revived in concert form, even if it gives us the long-overdue return of one of…