A Nicole Kidman is in early negotiations to take the leading role in Terence Rattigan’s After the Dance – about a man who leaves his wife for a younger woman – on the Broadway stage next year, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.
Should talks be completed, it would be the first time the Australian star has appeared in a New York theatre since David Hare’s The Blue Room, directed by Sam Mendes in 1998. She was due to work on Sweet Bird of Youth with James Franco, but production has been postponed.
Nicole (44) – who is married to country singer Keith Urban – won an Oscar nomination for her performance in 2010’s Rabbit Hole, and also appeared in romantic comedy Just Go With It with Jennifer Aniston in 2011.
She has a number of movie roles lined up, including The Paperboy with Zac Efron and Matthew McConaughey, and The Railway Man with British actors Colin Firth and Jeremy Irvine.