Katie Holmes showed off her winning street style when she appeared in New York this week, mid-career in a star-studded revival of Our Town.
Thornton Wilder’s acclaimed 1938 play has been revived on Broadway with a cast that includes Katie, as well as Jim Parsons and Zoey Deutch.
Stepping out in Manhattan on Saturday, Katie rocked an asymmetrical look, tucking her striped blouse in on one side and leaving the other out.
The 45-year-old, who shares daughter Suri Cruise, 18, with ex-husband Tom Cruise, appeared to be running errands that day.
Her arms were loaded with reusable canvas bags and she could be seen talking on the phone as she hit the sidewalk.
Katie Holmes showed off her winning street style when she appeared in New York this week, mid-career in a star-studded revival of Our Town.
Katie’s trendy look included charcoal pants that emphasized her vertiginous legs, as well as a burnt orange jacket that complemented her top.
Letting her dark hair down, she accentuated the ensemble with a baseball cap and paired the look with black tones and matching leather shoes.
Katie’s latest sighting comes after her revival of Our Town received a lukewarm response from critics following its Broadway premiere.
In a one and a half star review, the New York Post He accused the production of “dripping sentimentality” and argued: “The scenes are, at once, overacted, like an old amusement park, and underacted, with no credible or grounded moment to speak of.”
The revival was similarly called “mediocre” by the Wall Street Journalthat did save warm words for its “polished” quality and its “moments of humor.”
“In this production, we’re too aware of Parsons being center stage telling us everything and badgering the actors to stay here and do that, to care so much about what they’re doing,” the actor complained. daily beast. “We spend too much time away from the action, away from them, and when they’re in action, that action gallops past.”
However, the revival was praised for its “beauty”, its “good casting”, and its “quick, unsentimental direction” by the New York Times.
Similarly, Katie and Jim’s “charm” was hailed in a Variety review that said the production managed to make “the ordinary attractive.”
Stepping out in Manhattan on Saturday, Katie rocked an asymmetrical look, tucking her striped blouse in on one side and leaving the other out.
Katie began previews of Our Town on September 17, but the production doesn’t officially open at the Barrymore Theater until this Thursday night.
The show originally ran on Broadway in 1938 and became an instant classic of the American stage, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Narrated by a stage director, this innovative meta play revolves around New Hampshire town life at the dawn of the 20th century.
In the midst of a Spartan setting, the characters break the fourth wall, travel back in time and even return from beyond.
Katie, who shares an 18-year-old daughter named Suri with her ex-husband Tom Cruise, is making her big return to Broadway after 12 years.
He last starred on the Great White Way in the 2012 comedy play Dead Accounts, also starring Judy Greer and evil heartthrob Norbert Leo Butz.
Meanwhile, Our Town has enjoyed a series of revivals on Broadway since 1938, most recently in 2002 with a cast led by Paul Newman.
Katie’s return to Broadway comes just after her daughter Suri began college at Carnegie Mellon, having graduated from New York’s famed LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and Performing Arts earlier this year.
Katie is pictured with co-star Richard Thomas during the premiere of Our Town on Thursday, following previews that began on September 17.
The high school, which is said to have inspired the film Fame, has produced a formidable array of celebrities over the years.
Notable alumni range from Al Pacino and Liza Minnelli to Jennifer Aniston and Adrien Brody and newer faces like Ansel Elgort and Timothee Chalamet.
After graduating from high school, Suri now attends the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University, where she is said to be “leaning toward” studying fashion.
“She’s a smart girl and is developing into a very intelligent mature young woman,” a source recently revealed to DailyMail.com. “He has a very close group of loyal friends and knows exactly where he’s coming from.”
On the other hand, Suri’s mother is said to be “overwhelmed” at the prospect of Suri leaving for Pittsburgh to attend college. “Katie is very proud of her but she is also extremely overprotective,” a source shared.
Katie, who rose to fame in teen drama Dawson’s Creek, began dating Tom in 2005 and became engaged to him seven weeks into the relationship.
Their Scientologist wedding took place at the Castello Orsini-Odescalchi in Bracciano in November 2006, seven months after Suri’s birth.
Katie filed for divorce in 2012 that was finalized just 10 days later, with Katie retaining primary custody of Suri while Tom was granted visitation, via People.
Katie’s latest sighting comes after her revival of Our Town received a lukewarm response from critics following its Broadway premiere; Pictured on Thursday’s opening night curtain call.
Ron Miscavige, father of Scientology leader David Miscavige, told MailOnline in 2016 that Katie’s doubts about Scientology, including the effect it could have on Suri, contributed to her decision to leave Tom.
The Top Gun Maverick star reportedly paid Katie $400,000 a year until Suri turned 18, and will now send her money for her college fees.
Tom has not been photographed with his daughter in 11 years, and in 2018 it was alleged that he had created distance between him and Suri.
“Every person can see their child if they wish,” said a source Us weekly. “He decides not to do it because she is not a Scientologist.”