Peters鈥攚ho is scheduled to return to Broadway later this season in the London hit Old Friends, celebrating the life and work of Stephen Sondheim鈥攚ill perform November 8-9 in the Joan and
Robert M. Rechnitz Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey.
"We are beyond thrilled to welcome the incomparable Bernadette Peters, a true theatrical giant, to Two River Theater," Managing Director Nora DeVeau-Rosen and Artistic Director Justin Waldman said in a joint statement. "Her presence and performance at our theater is a monumental event for us and the community we serve."
Peters received both Tony and Drama Desk Awards for her performance in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance. She earned her second Tony for her work in Annie Get Your Gun. She also received Tony nominations for her performances in Sam Mendes鈥� critically acclaimed revival of Gypsy, Neil Simon鈥檚 The Goodbye Girl, Sondheim鈥檚 Pulitzer Prize-winning Sunday in the Park with George, the Jerry Herman-Gower Champion ode to the movies, Mack and Mabel, and the Leonard Bernstein-Comden and Green musical On the Town. She was last on Broadway in a critically acclaimed turn in the title role of Hello, Dolly! Peters is also the recipient of the 2012 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award.
Peters, who has also garnered a Golden Globe, four Emmy and four
Grammy nominations, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, has
recorded six solo albums. She also devotes her time and talents to
numerous events that benefit Broadway
Cares. Her 鈥減et project,鈥� Broadway Barks, co-founded
with Mary Tyler Moore, is an annual, star-studded dog and cat adoption
event that benefits shelter animals in the tri-state area.
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From Dot to Dolly: Celebrating the Stage Work of Bernadette Peters
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Bernadette Peters and cast in Dames at Sea Off-Broadway, 1966
Joel Grey, Bernadette Peters, Betty Ann Grove and Jerry Dodge in George M!, 1968
Joel Grey, Bernadette Peters, Jerry Dodge and Betty Ann Grove in George M!, 1968
The new play imagines the relationship between two literary icons at odds with their time: 27-year-old Christopher Marlowe and rising star William Shakespeare.
