Holmes, who became a star in the teen soap opera Dawson's Creek, made her Broadway debut in the 2008 production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons.

BBC: Katie Holmes' play gets early Broadway exit

Darryl Hammer's contribution to the BBC Hitchcock biopic The Girl, starring Sienna Miller, earned her the best production design award.

BBC: Bafta honour for Olympic programmes

In recent decades, Jonathan Miller's controversial 1982 English National Opera production, filled with Mafioso in New York's Little Italy circa 1950, has been followed by concepts as goofy as relocating the action to "The Planet of the Apes" in a 2005 staging in Munich, Germany.

WSJ: Mayer's 'Rigoletto,' set in Vegas, opens at Met

Named for its founder, a legendary filmmaker and a pioneer in ski films, Warren Miller Entertainment is a 50-year-old production company based in Boulder, Colorado.

CNN: The snows of Erukenya