Best foot forward! Katie Holmes puts on brave face in New York downpour... with play's end only a week away

PUBLISHED: 02:34 EST, 30 December 2012 | UPDATED: 02:51 EST, 31 December 2012

Katie Holmes didn't let a few raindrops ruin her day.

The actress put in another long day at the Music Box Theatre on Saturday and kept her spirits high despite the rain and the approaching end of the play.

Katie was spotted rushing to work earlier in the day, wearing a green trench coat, skinny jeans and black ankle boots.

Stiff upper lip: Katie Holmes managed a sheepish grin on her way to work at the Music Box Theatre on Saturday, despite the dismal rain and play's approaching end

Her long brown hair hung straight down her back, dampened from the drizzling rain.

Katie and her fellow cast members were recently hit with the news that the play is closing after only six weeks due to poor ticket sales.

The ex Mrs Tom Cruise was billed as the main star draw, playing the role of Lorna, a Cincinnati woman whose con-man brother Jack, played by Norbert Leo Butz, suddenly returns home from New York City bearing a secret.

Brave front: Katie later managed a smile as she left the theatre, after putting in another tireless performance of Dead Accounts

A week to go: Katie is no doubt looking for her next starring role as the play's last performance, January 6, looms near

The play has received mixed to negative reviews since it opened on November 29 and was supposed to run to February 24.

Now the final performance will be on January 6, following 27 previews and 44 regular performances.

But even that bad omen hasn't appeared to dampen Katie's demeanor.

She strolled through the stage entrance wearing a cute and sheepish grin.

Hard working: Katie arrived at the theatre on Sunday for a matinee performance wearing the same outfit

If it's not the rain, it's the wind! Katie tries to hold her long hair out of her face as she arrives for work on Sunday

After the show, Katie left the theatre still smiling, a sign that she's not worried about finding another acting job.

Katie's aspirations to become a stage star became a reality when she made her Broadway debut in 2008 in the play All My Sons.

No doubt Katie's agents are looking for her next starring vehicle.

On Friday, the working mother was spotted looking happy and healthy, bundled up in a navy coat and ferrying two large Starbucks coffees, one for her and the other for a friend perhaps.

Leading man: Josh Hamilton was spotted leaving the theatre following Saturday night's performance

On the town: Katie bundled up to grab coffee to go in a chilly New York City on Friday

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She's always clutching those huge take-away coffees. How unhealthy, I bet her pee smells awful.

- gibson29 , san diego, United States, 31/12/2012 09:17

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at least she's managed to get some pants that fit. her hair is still a scraggly mess though. oh well, one step at a time.

- breezy , san francisco, 31/12/2012 05:29

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She glows in these pics :)

- Laura , San Diego, 31/12/2012 04:44

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Katie dresses beautifully

- Adanna , San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, 31/12/2012 02:37

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How awful but she cannot act.

- Cuzie , Michigan, 31/12/2012 02:29

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Thank God the play has finally closed. Maybe she'll retire to Ohio and try out for amateur theatre, so we never have to hear from her again.

- LN , Neverland, 31/12/2012 01:02

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How awful...but she cannot act. She's awful. Sorry Katie.

- Cuzie , Michigan, 30/12/2012 23:35

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Another story on Katie going to work, how informative. if I were her, I'd wear the same clothes and style my hair the same way for weeks on end when I was out in public. The press would finally give up and leave me alone. Face it, these daily stories are nothing more than a fashion report, leave the woman alone.

- harriet , toronto, Canada, 30/12/2012 23:33

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She's smiling! Yeah!!

- perry , Lancashire, United Kingdom, 30/12/2012 23:16

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You know, you'd hardly think it possible to have all this rubbish written about Katie day after day after day. The same details trotted out in case a single reader might have missed one of them, Katie's outfit and hair are carefully described in case we missed something, her facial expression also described (usually wrongly, IMO) in case we're incapable of knowing a smile when we see one. That she's the ex-Mrs Tom Cruise is also included in case there's someone on the planet who doesn't know it, that the play is closing is also hammered home, the New York weather is usually given a mention (that's good because I don't recognise rain when I see it, and what IS that big yellow thing that was shining in the NY sky in the summer?). Come on, DM, time to give it a rest and leave Katie alone. And Suri too, of course.

- Iseult , Cambridge, 30/12/2012 23:15

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