Anna Ziegler's PHOTOGRAPH 51, Starring Nicole Kidman, to Open on Broadway Later This Year?

Nicole Kidman could be on the brink of a Broadway return.

According to the New York Post's Michael Reidel, the Oscar-winning actress will reprise her West End role in Anna Ziegler's PHOTOGRAPH 51 on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre later this year, where FULLY COMMITTED with Jesse Tyler Ferguson is currently playing. The report also suggests PHOTOGRAPH 51 could potentially take the Broadhurst Theatre, where the new musical TUCK EVERLASTING just began an open-ended run.

Kidman last appeared on Broadway in David Hare's THE BLUE ROOM in 1998.

"It's not what you expect from her at all," an unnamed Broadway producer told Reidel. "It's a knockout performance."

Directed by FROST/NIXON's Michael Grandage, PHOTOGRAPH 51 opened to rave reviews last fall in London, where Kidman was joined by Will Attenborough (James Watson), Edward Bennett (Francis Crick), Stephen Campbell Moore (Maurice Wilkins), Patrick Kennedy (Don Caspar) and Joshua Silver (Raymond Gosling).

BroadwayWorld will keep you updated as the future of PHOTOGRAPH 51 shapes up!

Photograph 51 follows one of science's more remarkable women, Dr Rosalind Franklin (Kidman). Dr Franklin left post-war Paris for the altogether grimmer post-war London, to undertake research with Dr Maurice Wilkins of King's College. Despite their less than harmonious nature working relationship, Franklin and Wilkins - along with the assistance of James Watson and Dr Don Caspar - made significant progress in the field of genetics, learning about the structure of DNA and ultimately enabling countless medical discoveries.

Kidman's theatre work includes The Blue Room (Donmar Warehouse and Cort Theatre, Broadway - Evening Standard Award, Olivier Award nomination). For television, her work includes Hemingway & Gellhorn (Emmy nomination, Golden Globe nomination); and her extensive film work includes To Die For (Golden Globe for Best Actress), Days of Thunder, Moulin Rouge! (Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical), The Others (Golden Globe nomination, Saturn Award), The Hours (Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe for Best Actress and Berlin Silver Bear), Cold Mountain, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, Stoker, Rabbit Hole (Golden Globe for Best Actress, Academy Award nomination), The Paperboy and Paddington. Upcoming films include Strangerland, Queen of the Desert, Genius, Lion and Secret in Their Eyes.

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