AwardsBernadette Peters Honored With 2024 Oscar Hammerstein Award November 11
The York Theatre Company also presents Ted Snowdon with the Founders' Award.
By
Andrew Gans
November 11, 2024
Three-time Tony honoree Bernadette Peters is presented with the
2024 Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theater
at the York Theatre Company's 32nd Oscar Hammerstein Award Gala
November 11 at the Edison Ballroom.
The
York Theatre Company Founders’ Award, recognizing individuals who have
made a significant impact on the sustainability of the arts, has
previously been presented to York Founding Artistic Director Janet
Hayes Walker, W. David McCoy, Sarah Tod Smith, Molly Grose, Robert
Goldberg, Gerald F. Fisher, Betty Cooper Wallerstein, Riki Kane Larimer,
Elisa Loti Stein, Ted Chapin, and, most recently, Jamie deRoy.
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’ critically acclaimed revival of Gypsy, Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl, Stephen Sondheim’s 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!
She
was last seen on the London stage in 2023 in the Sondheim
revue, Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, which will arrive on Broadway later this season. Peters is also the recipient of the 2012 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award.
Set in a 1947 Provincetown beach house, the play unfolds over one sultry night as Tennessee Williams and a young Marlon Brando craft A Streetcar Named Desire together.