{"id":2514004,"date":"2026-07-23T13:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2514004"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:37:18","slug":"suri-cruise-to-star-in-iconic-shakespeare-play-as-college-major-is-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/suri-cruise-to-star-in-iconic-shakespeare-play-as-college-major-is-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Suri Cruise to star in iconic Shakespeare play as college major is revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A Star Is Born.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old daughter of actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes is gearing up to star in an iconic William Shakespeare-adapted play, Page Six can exclusively reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Suri Cruise \u2014 who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/06\/22\/parents\/suri-cruise-celebrates-high-school-graduation-with-mom-katie-holmes\/\">swapped her famous father\u2019s last name<\/a> for her famous mother\u2019s middle name, Noelle, upon graduating from New York City\u2019s LaGuardia High School\u00a0in June 2024 \u2014 will be appearing in \u201cMidsummer!,\u201d a modern take on \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes\u2019 daughter, Suri \u201cNoelle\u201d Cruise (pictured in April 2024), is set to star in a William Shakespeare-adapted play, Page Six can exclusively reveal. <span class=\"credit\">Fernando Ramales \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The 20-year-old (pictured in August 2025) will be appearing in \u201cMidsummer!,\u201d a modern take on \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Fernando Ramales \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The 90-minute production will be performed by Suri and fellow Carnegie Mellon University students at the Trust Arts Education Center\u2019s Peirce Studio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Two shows will run on July 31 and Aug. 1 before the cast and crew take their talents across the pond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMidsummer!\u201d is slated to make its UK debut at the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which runs from Aug. 7 to Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The 90-minute production will be performed by Suri (pictured in December 2024) and fellow Carnegie Mellon University students at the Trust Arts Education Center\u2019s Peirce Studio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. <span class=\"credit\">Fernando Ramales \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Two shows will run on July 31 and Aug. 1 before the cast and crew take their talents across the pond. (Suri is pictured in May 2025.) <span class=\"credit\">Diamond \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Page Six can also reveal that Suri \u2014 who recently completed her sophomore year at Carnegie Mellon \u2014 is studying musical theater in the college\u2019s school of drama after it was previously believed that she was \u201cleaning toward\u201d obtaining a degree in fashion.<\/p>\n<p>In March, she portrayed the character Angel in \u201cCosmic Microwave Background,\u201d\u00a0a one-night-only staged reading at Pittsburgh\u2019s New Hazlett Theater\u00a0as part of its CSA: Off the Page series.<\/p>\n<p>Tom \u2014 a practicing Scientologist who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/04\/13\/celebrity-news\/suri-cruise-turns-18-estranged-from-tom-not-a-scientologist\/\">has long been estranged from Suri<\/a> \u2014 and Holmes\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2006\/04\/19\/tomkats-new-kitten-a-girl-couples-daughter-called-suri\/\">welcomed their only child together<\/a>\u00a0in April 2006 before\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2006\/11\/22\/making-the-cut-tomkats-five-tiered-wonder-took-the-cake\/\">tying the knot<\/a>\u00a0seven months later.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cMidsummer!\u201d is slated to make its UK debut at the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which runs from Aug. 7 to Aug. 31. (Suri is pictured with her mom in August 2024.) <span class=\"credit\">BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Page Six can also reveal that Suri (pictured with her now-estranged dad in October 2009) is studying musical theater in the college\u2019s school of drama after it was previously believed that she was \u201cleaning toward\u201d obtaining a degree in fashion. <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After the \u201cTop Gun\u201d franchise star, 64, and the \u201cDawson\u2019s Creek\u201d star, 47, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2012\/07\/05\/hollywoods-risky-biz-katie-cruises-from-tom\/\">divorced<\/a>\u00a0in August 2012, Suri lived with her mom, who has admitted in recent years that they\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2019\/11\/05\/katie-holmes-says-she-and-daughter-suri-13-kind-of-grew-up-together\/\">\u201ckind of grew up together.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom is also dad to daughter Isabella \u201cBella\u201d Cruise, 33, and son Connor Cruise, 31, whom he adopted when he was married to his second wife, Nicole Kidman.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his 11-year marriage with Kidman, Tom was wed to Mimi Rogers \u2014 who is often credited with introducing him to the Church of Scientology \u2014 from 1987 to 1990.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Star Is Born. The 20-year-old daughter of actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes is gearing up to star in an iconic William Shakespeare-adapted play, Page Six can exclusively reveal. Suri Cruise \u2014 who swapped her famous father\u2019s last name for her famous mother\u2019s middle name, Noelle, upon graduating from New York City\u2019s LaGuardia High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2514005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[31785,30058,30992,30055,24003,350846,25404,319955,340795,33293],"class_list":["post-2514004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-acting","tag-celebrity-children","tag-celebrity-dads","tag-celebrity-moms","tag-celebrity-news","tag-college","tag-exclusive","tag-katie-holmes","tag-suri-cruise","tag-tom-cruise"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Suri-Cruise-to-star-in-iconic-Shakespeare-play-as-college.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514006,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514004\/revisions\/2514006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}