In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

The movie directed by Lisa Albright was filmed in March 2010 and released commercially in November 2012. Peters appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and on the day-time talk show Live with Regis and Kelly both as a co-host and a guest. - Bernadette Peters Live At Carnegie Hall also was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Regarded by many as the foremost interpreter of the works of Stephen Sondheim Peters is particularly noted for her roles on the Broadway stage including in the musicals Mack and Mabel Sunday in the Park with George Song and Dance Into the Woods Annie Get Your Gun and Gypsy. Peters also continues to act in films and on television where Bernadette Peters has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards winning once. In the 1980s Bernadette Peters returned to the theatre where Bernadette Peters became one of the best-known Broadway stars over the next three decades.