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Julia Louis-Dreyfus will make her Broadway debut alongside Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery and Lily Rabe successful nan first Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s Tony Award-winning play Other Desert Cities, directed by Tony Award victor John Benjamin Hickey.
Other Desert Cities will play a 16-week constricted engagement astatine Broadway’s Hudson Theatre pinch previews starting Tuesday, September 29 up of a Sunday, October 18 opening night. The constricted engagement will extremity Sunday, January 17, 2027.
The accumulation and casting were announced coming by producers.
“I had, much aliases less, talked myself retired of imagining Other Desert Cities backmost successful New York,” said playwright Baitz said successful a statement. “But John Hickey is family to me, and I spot him completely. We spell backmost longer than I ever imagined: he hears a play – its ideas, its feeling, its euphony – pinch an intelligence and knowingness that anchors a room. And pinch this institution of actors a playwright dreams about, I thought that if location were still thing live successful it, they would find it. What’s somewhat unnerving is that astir 20 years later, done each nan fractures and divisions, nan questions stay nan same: really to unrecorded pinch who we are and what we’ve done and telephone that a life.”
Hickey said, “I person loved Robbie’s plays since he began penning them. I acted successful 2 of them early successful my career, and erstwhile I precocious revisited Other Desert Cities, I was stunned astatine really applicable nan play remains, possibly now much than ever. It’s an incredibly funny, surprising, and heartbreaking play astir an American family. OUR American family. To beryllium capable to bring it backmost to Broadway, pinch this powerhouse ensemble of actors, and unthinkable imaginative team, is simply a dream travel true.”
Other Desert Cities premiered Off Broadway successful a constricted engagement astatine Lincoln Center Theater successful 2011, pinch nan formed including Stockard Channing, Linda Lavin, Stacy Keach, Thomas Sadoski and Elizabeth Marvel. The play transferred to Broadway’s Booth Theatre that year, pinch Lavin replaced by Judith Light and Rachel Griffiths taking complete for Marvel. The play was directed by Joe Mantello.
The charismatic synopsis: “Every family has a secret. Not each family survives it. On Christmas Eve, nan sunlit Palm Springs location of a politically connected family becomes a battleground of memory, loyalty, and bequest erstwhile a girl returns pinch a memoir and nan powerfulness to expose nan explosive truth they’ve kept hidden. As nan past comes into focus, nan mobility isn’t conscionable what happened, but who owns a family’s story, and what is nan costs to show it.”
The creation squad for Other Desert Cities will see three-time Tony Award victor Scott Pask (scenic design), Emmy Award victor Tom Broecker (costume design), eight-time Tony Award victor Natasha Katz (lighting design), two-time Tony Award nominee Mikaal Sulaiman (sound creation and original music) and Robert Pickens (hair and wig design).
Other Desert Cities is produced by ATG Productions, Bad Robot Live, Gavin Kalin Productions, Kristin Caskey, Bee Carrozzini and Mike Isaacson.
