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Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster were photographed on Tuesday, Oct. 21, in a rare public appearanceThe couple attended Richard Marx’s Café Carlyle concert, which continues through Oct. 25Jackman and Marx are longtime friends

Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster‘s had a picture-perfect date night.

The couple took in a night of music in Manhattan on Tuesday, Oct. 21, attending Richard Marx’s After Hours Confessions show at New York City’s famed Café Carlyle.

Posing for a photo with Marx and the singer’s wife Daisy Fuentes before the show, Jackman, 57, and Foster, 50, were all smiles. The pair, who had their arms around one another, looked dapper, too — he in a crisp blue suit and she in a long-sleeve white knit dress.

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Richard Marx, Daisy Fuentes, Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster share smiles backstage on Oct. 21, 2025 before Marx’s ‘After Hours Confessions’ show at Café Carlyle in New York City.

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Jackman and Marx, 62, have been friends for over 20 years, and have collaborated together multiple times in the past. The Greatest Showman actor even appeared on Marx’s 2012 PBS concert A Night Out with Friends and on its corresponding live album, singing “The Letter.”

Back in June, Marx joined Jackman at the star’s Radio City Music Hall residency, Hugh Jackman: From New York with Love. The pals duetted on Marx’s 1989 hit, “Right Here Waiting.”

At the Café Carlyle on Tuesday, Jackman once again sang with Marx. The musician’s string of shows at the venue will continue through Oct. 25.

Hugh Jackman and Richard Marx perform during Marx’s ‘After Hours Confessions’ show at Café Carlyle on Oct. 21, 2025 in New York City.

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Foster and Jackman confirmed their romance back in January, with PEOPLE exclusively sharing a snap of the two holding hands on their way to dinner in Santa Monica, California.

The two Tony Award winners first became friends in the early 2000s, while both planting roots in different Broadway musicals. They went on to star opposite one another in the Broadway revival of Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man, which ran from December 2021 to January 2023.

Their relationship came after each went through divorces. Jackman separated from his now-ex-wife of 27 years, Deborra-lee Furness, in September 2023, while Foster filed for divorce from her now-ex-husband, Ted Griffin, in October 2024.

Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster pose at the opening night of ‘The Music Man’ on Broadway at The Winter Garden Theater on Feb. 10, 2022 in New York City.

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Though news of their pairing has been public, Jackman and Foster have kept their romance out of the spotlight.

They have supported one another behind the scenes, however — Jackman cheering Foster on in the audience of her concerts and her run in Once Upon a Mattress, and Foster doing the same at the opening of Jackman’s Radio City residency and his recent Off-Broadway play, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Class.

A source told PEOPLE back in August that the pair are “going strong” and have built a “good foundation.”

“He’s one of the greatest guys ever, an incredible costar,” she told PEOPLE at the 2024 Drama Desk Awards.

For his part, Jackman allowed that he had been intimidated by Foster’s talent and sterling résumé.

“I’ve watched everything she’s done,” said Jackman, during a joint appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers to promote The Music Man in May 2022. “This is a six-time Tony nominee, two-time winner. Like, I saw her do Thoroughly Modern Millie … It’s amazing.”