Legendary Broadway star will take the Meyerson Symphony Center stage in August.
PLANO, TX (April 29, 2025): The Plano Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is thrilled to bring the incomparable Bernadette Peters to Dallas for an inspiring evening of music on Saturday, August 30 at 7:30 PM at the Meyerson Symphony Center. An Evening with Bernadette Peters and the Plano Symphony Orchestra will be a one-of-a-kind night of songs with selections from such great music masters like Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman and more. Tickets range in price from $49-$150 and will be available for purchase starting Friday, May 9 at 9 AM and can be purchased through the Plano Symphony Orchestra Box Office (972-473-7262/planosymphony.org)
“The PSO is thrilled to present, in concert with our orchestra, the incredible Bernadette Peters,” said Greg Patterson, CEO/President. “Our goal is to expand our offerings and our performance footprint so more and more audiences throughout North Texas can enjoy all kinds of music from our orchestra.”
Throughout her illustrious career, Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage, film and television, in concert, and on recordings. She has garnered numerous accolades including three Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, four Emmy and four Grammy Award nominations and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Best known for her work on stage and one of Broadway’s most critically acclaimed performers, Bernadette just concluded a highly successful West End debut in the Cameron Mackintosh production of Old Friends, celebrating the life and work of Stephen Sondheim. The production premiered in Los Angeles before transferring to Broadway in Spring 2025.
Bernadette has recently starred on Broadway in Hello, Dolly!, Follies, A Little Night Music and Gypsy where she garnered both Tony and Drama Desk Award Nominations. She also appeared in City Center’s Encores! production A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Affair featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim and orchestrations by Wynton Marsalis.
Peters garnered both the Tony and Drama Desk Award for her performance in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance. She also won a Tony for her performance in the revival of Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun. She received Tony nominations for her outstanding performances on Broadway in Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl, Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical 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. Peters also earned a Drama Desk nomination for her unforgettable portrayal of the Witch in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods.
She also enjoys a career which boasts an impressive list of television credits, most recently the Apple TV+ series, “High Desert”, NBC-TV’s “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” for which she earned an Emmy nomination. The popular series was made into a TV movie musical titled “Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas” for The Roku Channel. Other TV appearances include “The CW’s “Katy Keene”; CBS All Access’ “The Good Fight”; and Amazon Prime’s Golden Globe winning series, “Mozart in the Jungle.”
Additional television credits include “Smash,” “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Ugly Betty” and “Ally McBeal” (Emmy Nomination), among others. In addition to starring in the Lifetime TV movie Living Proof, Peters has lit up the silver screen in over 30 films throughout her distinguished career. She received a Golden Globe Award for her memorable performance in “Pennies From Heaven.” Other film credits include The Jerk, The Longest Yard, Silent Movie, Annie, Pink Cadillac, Slaves of New York, Woody Allen’s Alice, Impromptu, It Runs in the Family, Coming Up Roses, The Broken Hearts Gallery and most recently, a surprise appearance in the popular Jonathan Larson biopic, tick, tick…BOOM!
Bernadette has recorded six solo albums, including the Grammy-nominated I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight, Sondheim, Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall, and Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein, in addition to numerous original Broadway cast recordings.
Peters devotes her time and talents to numerous events that benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Her “pet project” Broadway Barks, co-founded with Mary Tyler Moore, is an annual, star-studded dog and cat adoption event that benefits shelter animals in the New York City and tri-state area. Last year, while in London Bernadette presented West End Woofs, a sister organization to Broadway Barks. The event is the first of its kind in the UK that fostered a spirit of community among animal shelters and rescue groups.
The American Theater Wing honored her efforts and awarded her with the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award which recognizes an individual from the theatre community who has made a substantial contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian, social service or charitable organizations, regardless of whether such organizations relate to the theatre.
She is a New York Times best-selling author who has penned three children’s books: “Broadway Barks,” “Stella is a Star,” and “Stella and Charlie: Friends Forever.” All her proceeds from the sale of these books benefit both animal charities.
Special thanks to Ellie and Ira Barash, Jan and Craig Barber, and Nancy Freeman for their support.
About the Plano Symphony Orchestra:
Founded in 1983, the Plano Symphony is a non-profit symphony organization dedicated to providing the citizens of North Texas with rich and varied programming of orchestral music and to educating the youth and adults of the community about the joy of classical and popular music through live performance.
The Plano Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is widely acknowledged as one of the leading professional symphony orchestras in the region. Under the artistic and musical direction of Maestro Héctor Guzmán and leadership of Executive Director Gregory Patterson, the PSO produces eight subscription concerts annually as well as myriads of music education and community outreach programs that serve nearly 150,000 people annually.
Of the 18,000 students who participate in its School Concert Program, over 40% attend various Title I schools in Dallas or Collin counties.
The Plano Symphony Orchestra is supported, in part, by the City of Plano, Tammy and Charles Miller, The Andrea-Mennen Family Foundation (TAFF), Atmos Energy, the Aware Foundation, Baylor Scott & White Plano, Dianne and Marion Brockette, the City of Richardson, The Dallas Morning News, Nancy Freeman, Frisco Association for Arts, Frost Bank, Gittings, H-E-B, Sandy Nachman, National Endowment for Arts, Nylo Hotel, Wanda and Cliff Parker, Plano ISD, the Plano Rotary Club, the Plano Symphony Orchestra Guild, the Plano Symphony Orchestra Virtuoso Society, the Rea Charitable Trust, Retirement Planners of America, Signs by Tomorrow Plano, SoloShoe Communications, Carol and Bill Tempest, Texas Commission on Arts, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano, Veritex Community Bank, Methodist Hospital for Surgery, Bartlett & West, GP Consulting, LLC, and hundreds of individual donors, foundations, and corporations who make transformative gifts to the PSO.
