Alba to take on Broadway

Jessica Alba is lining up a stint on the Broadway stage next year - in a bid to beat an actor's strike.

Alba is in talks to star in a production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, playing Karen - a role debuted on the New York stage in 1998 by Madonna.

The actress hopes the show will coincide with a planned actor's strike - so she doesn't have to be out of work.

Alba told US morning TV show Live with Regis and Kelly: "I have been asked. It's perfect timing because of the strike.

"There might be an actor's strike in June. So if they don't resolve, I can do theatre."