Katie Holmes looks happy on coffee run in NYC as she starts new life without Suri – and heads back to Broadway after 12 years

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Katie Holmes kept it casual as she went on a morning coffee run in New York City on Tuesday morning. 

The recent empty-nester, 45, who dropped her daughter Suri, 18, off at college recently, looked relaxed but stylish in a loose fitting pink buttoned blouse with lace trim and a pair of loose fitting jeans.

She  strolled through the Big Apple in a pair of black ballet flats, and carried a large brown purse. 

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. 

Katie Holmes kept it casual but stylish as she went on a morning coffee run in New York City on Tuesday morning

‘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. 

The actress, 45, looked relaxed but stylish in a loose fitting pink buttoned blouse with lace trim and a pair of loose fitting jeans. She strolled through the Big Apple in a pair of black ballet flats, and carried a large brown purse

The actress, 45, looked relaxed but stylish in a loose fitting pink buttoned blouse with lace trim and a pair of loose fitting jeans. She strolled through the Big Apple in a pair of black ballet flats, and carried a large brown purse

Holmes's long, dark hair was pulled back in a ponytail and her makeup looked natural behind her brown framed sunglasses

Holmes’s long, dark hair was pulled back in a ponytail and her makeup looked natural behind her brown framed sunglasses

Holmes shared some recent photos from rehearsals with Zoey Deutch for Thornton Wilder's Our Town on social media.  'Come see @ourtownbroadway, preview performances begin September 17. We open October 10! ❤️'  she wrote

Holmes shared some recent photos from rehearsals with Zoey Deutch for Thornton Wilder’s Our Town on social media.  ‘Come see @ourtownbroadway, preview performances begin September 17. We open October 10! ❤️’  she wrote 

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.  

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