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Last week was a big week for Chicago plays on Broadway. Steppenwolf’s Superior Donuts opened at The Music Box Theatre, the same venue where August: Osage County recently closed. Keith Huff’s A Steady Rain, which ran at Chicago Dramatists last year, opened at Gerald Shoenfeld Theater, and Brighton Beach Memoirs, helmed by Chicago director-of-the-moment David Cromer, began previews Friday.

Do you think Oprah ever feels “in the middle” of celebrity breakups? On Monday she welcomed Nicole Kidman, ex-wife of famous couch-jumper Tom Cruise, to chat about life with hubby Keith Urban and baby Sunday Rose, and her new movie Australia coming out later this month. Well, if Oprah had and twinges of uneasiness they didn’t show. Oprah’s cup runneth over with enthusiasm for the Nicole Kidman/Hugh Jackman/Baz Luhrman flick, gushing all over the specially-decorated Australia-esque set and calling it the best movie she’s seen in a long time. Nicole seemed well, if not a little stiff, but that may just be the (alleged) Botox. But when Oprah brought out Hugh Jackman, all estrogen-fueled hell broke loose. The ladies giggled and squealed over his shirtless scenes in the movie clips, and as if his rippling abs weren’t enough, Hugh brought the audience cookies. Cookies! Tim Tams from Down Under, which both he and Nicole agreed were the best their country has to offer. (Note to Tim Tams: load up the ship and haul some more boxes over to the States. Oprah likes them. We will now buy them.)