Katie Holmes To Make Her Broadway Debut

Katie Holmes is in final negotiations to make her professional stage debut on Broadway.The producer of a revival of All My Sons, Arthur Miller's heartbreaking, post-World War II family drama, is clearly hoping Holmes (aka the third Mrs Tom Cruise) will create some sizzle at the box office later this year.It would be the first major revival of a Miller play since the dramatist's death three years ago.

All My Sons, to be directed by British-born Simon McBurney, would also allow Holmes to be more than "Mrs Tom Cruise" for six nights a week.The actress has committed to taking part in a private workshop of the play in May. She will play the part of a woman who visits her former neighbours, the family of a missing pilot she once loved.Producer Eric Falkenstein has already cast Broadway veterans John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest, which has had the desired effect of making Ms Holmes more comfortable about taking on her first play since high school.

Holmes has told McBurney and Falkenstein that she is serious about working in the theatre.Indeed, before her life was taken over by the cult of Cruise and turned into celebrity culture chow mein, Ms Holmes enjoyed a fastrising career, beginning with a small role in Ang Lee's powerful movie The Ice Storm.She had a good stint on Dawson's Creek, and several choice film roles in low-budget projects such as Pieces Of April and blockbusters such as Batman Begins.Marriage to Cruise, though, created a dull sensibility about her which had nothing to do with her talent.