Other Desert Cities on Broadway tickets
About Other Desert Cities
Set an alert for when Other Desert Cities tickets go on sale with TodayTix to see 11-time Emmy Award winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus make her Broadway debut alongside Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery, and Lily Rabe. Other Desert Cities plays for 16 weeks only at the Hudson Theatre starting Tuesday, September 29. Tony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey directs the first Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s Tony Award-winning play.
Other Desert Cities on Broadway follows a politically connected family on Christmas Eve in their Palm Springs home. The family is excited for a reunion, but when the daughter comes home with a new memoir that threatens to expose secrets and a hidden past, the holiday becomes a battleground of memory, loyalty, and legacy. For a show about a powerful family, it is fitting that it features an A-list cast. See stars come together and don't miss Other Desert Cities in New York.
Stars on stage
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Ed Harris
Allison Janney
Joe Keery
Lily Rabe
Other Desert Cities cast and creative team
By: Jon Robin Baitz
Director: John Benjamin Hickey
Cast list: Julia Louis-Dreyfus (as Polly), Ed Harris (as Lyman), Allison Janney (as Silba), Joe Keery (as Trip), Lily Rabe (as Brooke)
Sets: Scott Pask
Costumes: Tom Broecker
Lighting: Natasha Katz
Sound: Mikaal Sulaiman
Other info: Original music by Mikaal Sulaiman, hair and wig design by Robert Pickens
Venue
Accessibility
ADA seating, elevator access, assisted listening devices. The balcony is not accessible by elevator.
More information about Other Desert Cities
Playwright Jon Robin Baitz said in a statement, “I had, more or less, talked myself out of imagining Other Desert Cities back in New York. But John Hickey is family to me, and I trust him completely. We go back longer than I ever imagined: he hears a play – its ideas, its feeling, its music – with an intelligence and knowingness that anchors a room. And with this company of actors, a playwright dreams about, I thought that if there were still something alive in it, they would find it. What’s slightly unnerving is that nearly 20 years later, through all the fractures and divisions, the questions remain the same: how to live with who we are and what we’ve done and call that a life.”
Director John Benjamin Hickey added, “I have loved Robbie’s plays since he began writing them. I acted in two of them early in my career, and when I recently revisited Other Desert Cities, I was stunned at how relevant the play remains, maybe now more than ever. It’s an incredibly funny, surprising, and heartbreaking play about an American family.”
What to watch for
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus is one of TV's most iconic actresses with roles in Seinfeld, Veep, and more, but she has yet to make her Broadway debut until now.
- Co-star Ed Harris is a Tony Award nominee and four-time Academy Award nominee.
- The design team includes Scott Pask (scenic), Tom Broecker (costume), Natasha Katz (lighting), Mikaal Sulaiman (sound design and original music), and Robert Pickens (hair and wig).
- Joe Keery most notably starred as Steve in Netflix’s Stranger Things.
Frequently asked questions
How do you get tickets for Other Desert Cities?
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Which theatre is Other Desert Cities at?
Other Desert Cities is at New York's Hudson Theatre, which is located at 141 West 44th Street, New York, 10036.
What is Other Desert Cities about?
Other Desert Cities is about a political family, their secrets, and the daughter's memoir that threatens to ruin a legacy.
Who wrote Other Desert Cities?
Jon Robin Baitz wrote the play that became a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Who directs Other Desert Cities?
Tony winner John Benjamin Hickey directs this revival.
