Nicole Kidman to return to Broadway in 2011

Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman is due to return to Broadway next year to star in a revival of the Tennessee Williams play �Sweet Bird of Youth,� a production spokesman said yesterday.

�It�s something that�s in the works (and) there�s an intent to move forward,� the spokesman said.

Kidman (picture), 43, first appeared on Broadway � with mixed reviews � in 1998 in David Hare�s sexually explicit play �The Blue Room�, which included a brief nude scene.

The actress, who was raised in Australia, went on to win an Oscar for her role as writer Virginia Woolf in �The Hours� in 2002.

�Sweet Bird of Youth� was first staged on Broadway in 1959. This revival is due to be directed by David Cromer.