Broadway and Hollywood have many differences (How's that for stating the obvious?), but one thing they share is a love of stars. The upcoming Broadway season promises the opportunity to see many beloved film personalities in person, many of whom have a solid stage pedigree. Here's a preview of some of the famous faces that are slated to grace the Great White Way during the 2014 to 2015 season.

Hugh Jackman - No matter how big Hugh Jackman gets -- and the guy is about as big a star as anyone could be -- he remains committed to returning to the stage on a regular basis.

He won a Tony Award for his star turn in the otherwise forgettable The Boy From Oz. He later costarred with Daniel Craig in the otherwise regrettable A Steady Rain. Jackman then returned to Broadway in 2011 with the appropriately titled Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway. This season, Jackman is scheduled to appear in The River, a new play by Jez Butterworth, author of the riveting Jerusalem. With Jackman, though, it never really seems to be about the show he's appearing in. People seem willing to buy a ticket to anything with Hugh Jackman in it. The River begins previews in October, toward a November opening. 

Glenn Close - It's hard to believe that Glenn Close hasn't been on Broadway in 20 years. But that's how long it's been since her Tony-winning turn in Sunset Boulevard. (Unless you count a mystery-guest walk-on in the riotous The Play What I Wrote.) Glenn, of course, has been anything but idle, filling her time with, among other projects, her successful TV series Damages. She returns to Broadway in the second revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance, with costars John Lithgow, Lindsay Duncan, Martha Plimpton, and Bob Balaban.

The show begins previews in October, and opens in November. 

Michael Cera - It's not just the mature actors who are coming to Broadway. This season will also see the Main Stem debut of Michael Cera, one of the hottest young actors in Hollywood, and star of such edgy comedies as Juno and Superbad, as well as the cult TV show Arrested Development. Cera will star with Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevison in This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan. Although the play made its New York debut in 1996, both Cera and Culkin became enamored with the play and its language while they were shooting Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and have been looking for a chance to bring it back to New York ever since. The show begins previews in August, and opens in September. 

Ewan McGregor - One theme of this list is that many of the plays listed here are tried and true (versus brand spanking new), and that's certainly true of The Real Thing, which has been on Broadway twice before. But this apparently hasn't deterred Hollywood A-lister Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, the Star Wars series) from selecting the Tom Stoppard play as the vehicle for his Broadway debut. McGregor will costar with Maggie Gyllenhall and Cynthia Nixon, themselves no strangers to the film and television screens. The Real Thing begins on Broadway in October. 

Bradley Cooper - One of the hottest tickets at the Williamstown Theater Festival two summers back was The Elephant Man with Bradley Cooper, so it's certainly no surprise that the production is moving to a Broadway berth. Cooper, star of such Hollywood offerings as Silver Linings Playbook and The Hangover, will star as John Merrick, the tragically disfigured man who nonetheless became the toast of London society, as portrayed by Bernard Pomerance in his award-winning play. The Elephant Man begins performances in October and opens in November. 

Megan Mullaly - The delightful Megan Mullaly (the unforgettable Karen Walker on Will and Grace) returns to Broadway in Terrence McNally's raucous comedy It's Only a Play. Mullaly will appear alongside an all-star cast that also features Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, F. Murray Abraham, Stockard Channing, and Rupert Grint of Harry Potter fame. (Truly an embarras de richesses.) Mullaly made quite an impression in the recent one-night-only concert staging of Guys and Dolls at Carnegie Hall, and there were rumors that she might bring that show back to Broadway for what would be its sixth revival. Until such time, we have It's Only a Play, which begins previews in September, toward an October opening. 

Jake Gyllenhall - Apparently, all of the really hot guys in Hollywood got together and decided to descend upon Broadway en masse next season, because it was recently announced that Jake Gyllenhall would make his Broadway debut this coming season in the new play Constellations by Nick Payne. Gyllenhall made his New York stage debut in 2013 in Payne's play If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet. In an interesting confluence of forces, Gyllenhall previously appeared in a London production of This Is Our Youth, which is also listed here. Also, Gyllenhall's sister Maggie will appear on Broadway next season as well, in The Real Thing, also listed above. Constellations is scheduled to begin performances in December, toward a January 2015 opening.