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All eyes were on Judi Dench. The legendary actress was seated stage right, performing one of Stephen Sondheim's greatest hits. The sound of her voice, accompanied by a 25-piece orchestra led by Alfonso Casado Trigo, held a hushed audience in awe. There was spontaneous applause. The great dame was led off stage. She…

Emmy Award nominee Bernadette Peters fully supports the casting of young Black actress Celina Smithto lead NBC’s Annie Live!, a musical TV special with Smith portraying little orphan Annie. “Yes, I think as long as it makes sense, and I think it does,” Peters, who starred in the 1982 film Annie, told Deadline at the…

UPDATE, with additional performances: Jake Gyllenhaal, Linda Lavin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Laura Benanti, Neil Patrick Harris and Ben Platt are among the second wave of stars to sign on for Sunday’s Stephen Sondheim virtual birthday concert. Also joining the all-star benefit for Artists Striving To End Poverty are…

EXCLUSIVE: The CW’s upcoming Katy Keene is once again expanding its family: Broadway legend Bernadette Peters has been cast as a mother figure to Julia Chan’s Pepper Smith, one of Katy’s close friends and inner circle. Peters will play “Ms. Freesia,” described as “Pepper Smith’s eccentrically elegant surrogate mother…

Broadway Barks, the annual pet adoption event that’s become one of the New York theater community’s more popular summertime charity activities, has been scuttled this year due to ongoing construction in Shubert Alley. Shubert Alley, the block-long pedestrian walkway “in the heart” of the theater district, has been the…

Refresh for updates Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler, two of the most celebrated successors to Carol Channing’s most indelible role – and indeed her legacy – have added their names to the stars praising the late, great Broadway actress. “Carol was a true life-force…a kind and effervescent woman who never allowed the…

“Craig would have loved it” was a common refrain heard in the lobby of the Television Academy’s Wolf Theatre on Sunday night at the conclusion of Thespians Go Hollywood, a tribute to the life and work of the late prolific film, TV and Broadway producer Craig Zadan. Not only would he have loved it, he could have produce…

Bette Midler is heading back where she belongs, returning to Broadway’s Hello, Dolly! for the final six weeks of the hit Tony-winning show that won her a Tony of her own. Bernadette Peters, who took over the role after Midler’s departure, will end her run as previously scheduled on July 15, with Midler taking the…

Waitress turns two in April but the musical adaptation of Adrienne Shelly’s indie film is playing like the hot new kid on the block. Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, who made her Broadway debut with the exceptional score, returned last week for a second stint in the title role, opposite recording star Jason Mraz as…

The upcoming The Good Wife followup series has cast CSI veteran Paul Guilfoyle and Tony-winning actress Bernadette Peters as recurring. Additionally, the series’ executive producer Brooke Kennedy has been tapped to direct the opening episode. Kennedy is a long-time collaborator of The Good Wife creators/executive…

"It was super nice to be in Venice," Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle star Gael Garcia Bernal said about Season 3. “It's so wet…we were all really wet all the time. That added to the magical moisture of music." Unspooling Season 3 on December 9, Mozart in the Jungle, based on Blaire Tindall's memoir Mozart in the Jungle…