Streep Would 'Love to Go Back to Broadway'

NY Post's Page Six Magazine reports that acting icon Meryl Streep would love to return to the Broadway stage, and soon. The glossy reveals, "The mother of four says that she is traveling way too much, visiting her kids who are spread out across the U.S. But what she'd really like to do is settle down in NYC and do a show on the Great White Way. 'I would love to go back to Broadway if the right play or musical came along'... explains the actress."

Meryl Streep will soon be seen as the stern Sister Aloysius in the upcoming big screen adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt.

Streep was up for an Academy Award for her performance in The Devil Wears Prada.  She is a two-time Oscar winner for Kramer vs. Kramer and Sophie's Choice, and has been nominated for an additional 11 Oscars.  Other film credits include The Deer Hunter, Silkwood, Out of Africa, Postcards from the Edge, Heartburn, The Bridges of Madison Countyand Adaptation.  She was last seen on screen as Donna in the film version of the Broadway hit Mamma Mia!. Her many theatre credits include Trelawney of the 'Wells,' The Taming of the Shrew, Happy End, The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull and Mother Courage (she starred in the latter two at the Delacorte Theatre).

Doubt opened on Broadway on March 9th, 2005 and ran through July 2nd, 2006; it had originally played a hit run at Manhattan Theatre Club.  With a Tony-winning performances by Cherry Jones and Adriane Lenox, and Tony-nominated work byBrian F. O'Byrne, the show won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play in addition to the Pulitzer Prize.  Doug Hughes won a Tony for directing the play.

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