Katie Holmes, 45, looks effortlessly chic in a white blouse and grey jeans as she steps out in Midtown NY

Katie Holmes looked effortlessly chic in a white blouse and grey jeans as she stepped out in Midtown, New York on Friday. 

The actress, 45, couldn’t wipe the smile off her face as she was seen out and about in the big apple.

She teamed her look with chic black ballet pumps and a tan leather handbag during her outing.

The Dawson’s Creek alum is currently rehearsing at at the Barrymore Theatre for the new production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. 

Katie made her Broadway debut in 2008 for a production of All My Sons, and last appeared on Broadway in 2012’s Dead Accounts.

The actress couldn’t wipe the smile off her face as she was seen out and about in the big apple

‘Love working on @ourtownbroadway,’ the actress wrote on social media recently.

‘We are in rehearsals and having a great time. This is the very talented and kind and funny and wonderful @zoeydeutch and me.

‘Come see @ourtownbroadway, preview performances begin September 17. We open October 10! ❤️’

She will star as Mrs. Webb, the mother of Deutsch’s protagonist Emily Webb.

Richard Thomas, 73, of The Waltons fame will star as her husband Mr. Webb, and Jim Parson’s will tackle the role of Stage Manager.

Ephraim Sykes will star as George Gibbs and Billy Eugene Jones will play his father Dr. Gibbs in the contemporary update to the play first performed in 1938. 

In an interview with Town & Country magazine for the September issue, Holmes revealed her daughter hopes to join the family business and will study acting and dance at Carnegie Mellon University.

The actress shares her daughter with ex-husband Tom Cruise, 62.

She teamed her look with chic black ballet pumps and a tan leather handbag during her outing

Katie’s daughter Suri Cruise is a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, studying acting and dance

Suri and Tom inside the Waldorf Astoria Ballroom in New York City in 2012

The Top Gun star is estranged from his youngest child because she is not a member of Scientology, and is considered a ‘suppressive person.’ 

In their divorce, Cruise agreed to pay Holmes $38,000 a month in child support, which ended when Suri turned 18.  He also agreed to cover her college costs. Tuition is currently $68,000 a year. 

One of the acting courses available at Carnegie Mellon focuses on the films of Stanley Kubrick, which include his works from 1967-1999. 

Among those are; Paths of Glory, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, the Oscar winning 2001: A Space Odyssey,  and Eyes Wide Shut, starring Cruise and then-wife Nicole Kidman.