Bernadette Peters

Yesterday, May 24, New Dramatists honored two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters with their 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award at its 63rd Annual Spring Luncheon tribute at the New York Marriott Marquis. Among those who offered tributes were ...  

NEW YORK — Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones and Bernadette Peters will be on hand to help present the Drama Desk Awards next month. Producers announced on Thursday a list of stars who will help hosts Brooke Shields and Brian d’Arcy James hand out ...  

Stage and screen stars Brooke Shields and Brian d’Arcy James will host the 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards June 3 at 8 PM at The Town Hall in Manhattan.  

The Drama Desk Awards have announced the lineup of presenters for this year’s awards ceremony, hosted by Brooke Shields and Drama Desk winner Brian d'Arcy James. The presenters represent many different aspects of the New York theater community ...  

As previously reported, stage and screen stars Brian d'Arcy James and Brooke Shields will co-host. Presenters will include Peggy Eisenhauer, Rick Elice, Oskar Eustis, William Finn, Jenny Gersten, Julie Halston, James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury ...  

New Dramatists honors two-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters, recently on Broadway in the critically acclaimed, Tony-nominated revival of Follies, with the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award at its 63rd Annual Spring Luncheon tribute May 24 at the New York Marriott Marquis.  

Other presenters set to appear include Martha Plimpton, John Larroquette, Julie Halston, Roger Rees, Alex Timbers, Doug Wright, Rick Elice, Maury Yeston, William Finn, Peggy Eisenhauer, Jonathan Tunick, Oskar Eustis and Jenny Gersten.  

There were the standbys, of course — the Sondheim tunes, Rodgers and Hammerstein, even a few popular non-Broadway melodies. But Bernadette Peters enthralled her audience most with the unexpected: a haunting rendition of an old American folk song.  

There were the standbys, of course — the Sondheim tunes, Rodgers and Hammerstein, even a few popular non-Broadway melodies. But Bernadette Peters enthralled her audience most with the unexpected: a haunting rendition of the old American folk s ...  

Audiences can also expect performances from Tony nominee Josh Young and the cast of the Tony-nominated revival of Jesus Christ Superstar as well as the acclaimed revival of the Stephen Schwartz musical Godspell. The Tony Awards, celebrating excellence in ...  

Bernadette Peters, the Broadway icon, will take center stage with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for its NJSO POPS season finale on June 2.Peters is widely regarded as the foremost interpreter of the music of Stephen Sondheim, and NJSO...  

Bernadette Peters, actress, singer and author, is taking a stand for animals by promoting animal rescue in the annual event Broadway Barks. The show was originally created in 1999 as Read More  

Actor Bernadette Peters founded Broadway Barks in 1999 with friend Mary Tyler Moore. The annual event, held in Shubert Alley in the heart of New York's Theatre District, features stage stars who present rescued shelter animals for adoption.  

Earlier this month, the 2012 Tony Awards nominations were announced by Tony winning actress Kristin Chenoweth and Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Jim Parsons. The Tony Awards will be broadcast in a live three-hour ceremony from the Beacon Theatre, on the CBS television network on Sunday, June 10, 2012.In a season as rich as this past theatrical season though, there were only so many spots for nominees and some very talented shows and...  

Among those on the program offering tributes will be Emmy Award-winner Mary Tyler Moore, Peters’ Tony Award-winning ... She also earned a Drama Desk nomination for her performance in Into the Woods. Her TV credits include, most recently ...  

Summertime Entertainment has announced that Tony Award-winner Bernadette Peters’ voice will be heard in their 3D CG animated feature, Dorothy of Oz as Glinda, the powerful sorceress who once granted Dorothy Gale’s wish to go back to Kansas. “To have Bernadette Peters as Glinda is such a treat,” said Will Finn, one of the film's directors. “She epitomizes the character who is known by Oz fans worldwide to have a very caring and...  

The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that Bernadette Peters will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award. Additionally, the Administration Committee will bestow Special Tony Awards to Actors Equity Association and to Hugh Jackman. These awards will be presented at the 2012 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 10th. The 2012 Tony Awards are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.  

Bernadette Peters visits Symphony Hall on Wednesday to join Keith Lockhart at Opening Night at Pops. A Broadway fixture in shows — including “Song and Dance” (for which she won her first Tony Award), “Annie Get Your Gun” (for which she ...  

For more information, go to  www.bu.edu/met.    Catch five innovative performances of original works when  the theatre group Sleeping  Weasel presents “Pin To Dry:  An Evening of Theatre, Dance,  and Performance” at 7:30 p.m.  at The Factory ...  

Bernadette Peters gave another in a long line of pitch-perfect portrayals this theater season as former showgirl Sally Durant Plummer in the Kennedy Center mounting of Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies.” And, while that lavish production – a Tony nominee ...  

Bernadette Peters talks about her many roles and what drives her career. She will perform a solo concert Tuesday at the Flynn Center in Burlington — her first appearance on a Vermont stage in a career that spans decades and includes seven Tony nominations and two wins (along with screen accolades,...  

Bernadette Peters surprised Broadway legend Joel Grey on his 80th birthday with a cake backstage at Anything Goes at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York City yesterday, April 11, 2012. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the celebration and brings you complete photo coverage below  

The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced April 30 that two-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award and Special Tony Awards will be presented to Actors’ Equity Association and to Tony winner Hugh Jackman.  

Mind you, we’re not exactly getting chopped liver with Victoria Clark, herself a Tony winner, taking over the role of Sally Durant Plummer.  And, in fact, Miss Peters is hardly going to go home empty handed on June 10 since she’s due to ...  

And while Bernadette Peters is still very much Bernadette Peters ... you get a quarter of very skilled actors and accomplished singers in Matthew Crowle, Stephen Schellhardt. McKinley Carter and Christine Sherrill — Crowle is deliciously ...  

New Dramatists, Tony Honor recipient and playwright development workshop, today announced that two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters will be honored with their 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award at its 63rd Annual Spring Luncheon tribute, to be held Thursday, May 24th at the New York Marriott Marquis.  

Hugh Jackman and Bernadette Peters will be honored at the 2012 Tony Awards. Tony winners Hugh Jackman and Bernadette Peters will now have additional Tony trophies to add to their mantles as they will be recipients of special 2012 Tony Awards.  

With an illustrious career spanning stage, film and television, Tony Award-winner Bernadette Peters' voice will be heard in Summertime Entertainment's 3D CG animated feature, DOROTHY OF OZ as "Glinda," the powerful sorceress who once granted ...  

What an honor! The Tony Awards Administrators have announced that Bernadette Peters and Hugh Jackman will both be honored with some serious accolades this year at the ceremony, with the former receiving the Isabelle Stevenson Award and the latter a Special Tony Awards, which will also be recevied by the Actors’ Equity Association! The Stevenson Award recognizes [...]  

Together with Mary Tyler Moore, Peters founded Broadway Barks, to promote the adoption of shelter animals. She has also written two children's books whose proceeds go to the charity, and is an active supporter of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS ...  

Film News: Will voice Glinda in 3D animated feature  

Peters will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award — created in 2009 to recognize individuals in the theatre community who have contributed ... through our nomination predictions? And does it break your heart that EW doesn’t have a blog ...  

Broadway favorites Lea Michele, Megan Hilty and Bernadette Peters will all lend their vocal talents to the upcoming DOROTHY OF OZ animated film. In the video below, which features a portion of the yet to be released teaser trailer, they chat with ET about their respectivecharacters. Click below to check it out  

The animated musical continues Dorothy's journey in this adaptation of the adventure books written by L. Frank Baum's great-grandson. [...]  

Bernadette Peters initially turned down the offer to appear on the hit NBC show Smash, which goes behind the scenes of a Broadway show, when the producers approached her. “I was actually in (Broadway’s) Follies when they asked me, and I said ...  

On Saturday, March 24, BroadwayWorld was on the red carpet of the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards to talk with all of the event's stars, including Bernadette Peters, Cheyenne Jackson and more Glee's Cory Monteith and Naya Rivera hosted the event at the Marriott Marquis Times Square on March 24.  

"Glee" and Spring Awakening star Lea Michele, Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters and "Smash" star Megan Hilty recently sat down with "Entertainment Tonight" to talk about the upcoming animated musical feature film "Dorothy of Oz." As previously reported ...  

When a big Broadway star like Bernadette Peters makes her way onto a national TV program, Broadway babies await it with abated breath. Yet, when a big Broadway star like Bernadette Peters appears on an actual musical TV series like SMASH, Broadway babies have reason to throw an all-out bacchanal - and, last night, they most certainly had a reason cause celebre. While GLEE has spoiled us with a plethora of guest stars from Broadway and...  

Conductor John Morris Russell led the Pops-only first half ... capped by a bright orange flash of light. “Johanna” (“Sweeney Todd”) began under blood-red lighting, with a dramatic introduction by the Pops’ Julie Spangler at the ...  

NEW YORK — Joel Grey is celebrating his 80th birthday in style. First, his cast mates wheeled out a birthday cake after curtain call for the Broadway musical “Anything Goes.” Then stage and screen legend Bernadette Peters came onstage to lead the ...  

Producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan were honored for their staggering body of LGBT-inclusive films with the prestigious Vito Russo Award by Bernadette Peters and John Stamos at the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards Saturday.  

Taking a brief breather after finishing up the successful revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Follies" and shooting a much ballyhooed appearance March 12 on NBC's "Smash," Bernadette Peters is relaxing and regenerating at home in her Manhattan ...  

Hollywood ReporterJackman, Peters nab Tonys: Special awards to go to actors, EquityChicago TribuneHugh Jackman, Bernadette Peters and legit thesps' union Actors' Equity Association will each receive a special kudo at the Tony Awards ceremony this year. Peters, seen on the Rialto earlier this season in the revival of "Follies," will take home the ...Hugh Jackman, Bernadette Peters, Actors' Equity to Receive Honorary Tony AwardsHollywood...  

Peters, 64, who practically grew up on the stage ... She was heaped with honors for her work in “The Goodbye Girl,” Bernstein's “On the Town” and Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park With George” and “Into the Woods.”  

She meets a charming man made of marshmallows who can't quite think for himself, a tiny china doll princess whose bossiness is a cover for her fragility, and a tugboat with as many personalities as he has pieces. Dorothy must help this group ...  

Additional tour dates have been announced for two-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters, who was most recently seen on Broadway in the critically acclaimed revival of Follies.  

Bernadette Peters joined the cast of Broadway's Anything Goes onstage at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre April 11, celebrating the 80th birthday of legendary actor Joel Grey.  

VarietyNew Dramatists to fete Bernadette PetersVarietyAnother luncheon -- this one the Drama League Awards -- also has lined up talent appearances, tapping Stockard Channing and John Larroquette to host the org's 78th annual awards. Playwright-centric New Dramatists gives Peters its kudo for a long career ...and more »  

“Bernadette Peters is one of those rare performing artists with an original voice,” said New Dramatists artistic director Todd London in a statement. “She has brought a new sound into the theatre and continues to do so, in surprising and ...  

Viewed on its own, however, DeLuise’s episode is of the broadly humorous ... “It’s like a kind of torture to have to watch the show”: The show’s in the process of tweaking and reformatting the blackout gags it uses to transition between ...  

Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters, who recently appeared on the NBC musical drama "Smash" as Leigh Conroy, presented "Smash" producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron with a special honor during the New York GLAAD Media Awards March 24 at the Marriott Marquis.  

Bernadette Peters surprised Joel Grey on his 80th birthday with a cake backstage at Anything Goes at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York City on April 11, 2012.  

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The Boston Pops has announced details for its 2012 season under the direction of Keith Lockhart, which will have the unifying theme of "Visions of America," and be dedicated to celebrating many of this country's greatest musical traditions.  

Two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters presented "Smash" producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron with a special honor during the New York GLAAD Media Awards March 24 at the Marriott Marquis.  

And Michael (Will Chase) is out as Joe DiMaggio ... and her Broadway diva mom played by Bernadette Peters (for you non-theatre folks, she was in The Jerk). It’s a fun guest-starring role where Peters gets to belt out “Everything is Coming ...  

The 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards were held on March 24, 2012 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square and Glee's Cory Monteith and Naya Rivera hosted the event. Tony Kushner received an award for Outstanding New York Theatre: Broadway & Off ...  

Two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters presented "Smash" producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron with a special honor during the New York GLAAD Media Awards March 24 at the Marriott Marquis. Read the Playbill.com story.  

The relationship between Ivy (Megan Hilty, r) and her Mama (Bernadette Peters) is not an easy one. After last week's episode of NBC’s musical drama Smash, when Broadway legend Bernadette Peters...  

Two-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters helps Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops kickoff their 2012 season May 9 at 8 PM at Symphony Hall. The May 9 Opening Night concert also features a performance of George Gershwin’s "Love Is Sweeping the Country" set ...  

Legit News: Talent lining up for spring's legit awards  

It’s happened. Geese are flying south for the summer. The sun has risen in the west (and yes, I do have to sing through that section of the Beauty and the Beast lyric in order to remember which direction it’s actually supposed to rise/set; and yes, I do have to do so in the voice of Mrs. Potts). The ghost of Charlie Nylund is communicating to us through the cantaloupe aligned to one side in the fruit salad. A plain yellow pumpkin has become a...  

New Dramatists has announced a preliminary line-up of guests who will pay tribute to the previously reported Lifetime Achievement honoree Bernadette Peters at the organization's 63rd Annual Spring Luncheon tribute, to be held on Thursday, May 24 at the New ...  

Before introducing the two men, Peters recalled some of their career highlights ... For a full recap of the GLAAD awards go here. Watch Peters, Meron, and Zadan below.  

The Nominees Reception for the 57th annual Drama Desk Awards was held on Tuesday, May 8 at Oceana, with guests including Hugh Dancy, Audra McDonald, Joely Richardson, Bernadette Peters, Linda Lavin, and Judith Light. The Nominees Reception for the 57th ...  

Bernadette Peters and Hugh Jackman will be honored for their offstage efforts.  

Bernadette Peters and Hugh Jackman will be honored for their offstage efforts.  

Bernadette Peters and Hugh Jackman will be honored for their offstage efforts.  

Peters plays Broadway legend Leigh Carlton ... Brian d'Arcy James, Raza Jaffrey, and Jaime Cepero.