The star of multiple Broadway shows, Cerveris has played roles ranging from Tommy in The Who's Tommy, Thomas Andrews (designer of the R.M.S. Titanic) in Titanic: The Musical to John Wilkes Booth in Assassins. He first came to national attention as Ian Ware in the television series FAME. Around that time he began his film career with a few scenes as a singer in the movie Tokyo Pop. He offers his song from that film on his web page for free. He costarred in the film The Mexican alongside Julia Roberts and James Gandolfini, and guest starred in the hit tv shows CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (as Syd "Booth" Goggle aka The Strip Strangler) and 21 Jump Street, Law & Order: Criminal Intent among others.

Cerveris played the title role in a new production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which opened on Broadway on November 3, 2005. This revival won him a third Tony award nomination, as well as rave reviews from The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal. It closed on September 3, 2006.

He has been nominated for the American Theatre Wing's Tony Award four times. His first nomination was for his Broadway debut in 1993, for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for The Who's Tommy. Cerveris was nominated again in 2006 for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for Sweeney Todd. He won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as John Wilkes Booth in the revival of the Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical Assassins. He was nominated for the 2007 Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical Tony Award for his performance as composer Kurt Weill in LoveMusik.

Cerveris has a recurring role as The Observer on the TV series Fringe.

Cerveris played guitar as a member of Bob Mould's touring band supporting the album The Last Dog And Pony Show. A performance at The Forum in London was recorded and released as BobMouldBand: LiveDog98 (Granary Music 2002). His debut solo album, Dog Eared (Low Heat Records 2004), was co-produced with Adam Lasus and includes guest appearances from Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney), Ken Stringfellow (Posies, R.E.M.), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Kevin March (Guided by Voices), Anders Parker (Varnaline), and Laura Cantrell.

He has also contributed vocals to a song that was part of a ringtone project by They Might Be Giants.

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