Nicole Kidman Eyes Broadway Return in Terence Rattigan's After the Dance

Oscar winner Nicole Kidman is considering a return to the Broadway stage in Terence Rattigan’s After the Dance, according to the Daily Mail. Kidman would star as Joan Scott-Fowler in the Broadway transfer of a Thea Sharrock-helmed production, which ran at London’s National Theatre in 2010. The National production featured Nancy Carroll as Joan and Benedict Cumberbatch as her husband David. The play would aim to land on Broadway in either the spring or autumn of next year.

After The Dance tells the story of David and Joan Scott-Fowler, who always claimed they married for amusement, and not love, in the hedonistic 1920s. Years later, when a young woman falls in love with David and is determined to take him away from Joan, she finds herself unable to tell her husband how much she really does love him.

Should a deal with Kidman be reached, this would mark her first Broadway appearance in 14 years. She famously got naked on stage in David Hare’s The Blue Room in 1998. A previously rumored Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Kidman and James Franco, never materialized.

Kidman’s many film credits include her Oscar winning turn in The Hours as well as Far and Away, Moulin Rouge!, Cold Mountain, The Golden Compass, The Stepford Wives, Bewitched, Batman Forever, Margot at the Wedding, Australia, the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Nine and Rabbit Hole, based on David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.