Julia Louis-Dreyfus is heading to the Great White Way. The Emmy-winning actor is making her Broadway debut this fall in “Other Desert Cities” alongside Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery and Lily Rabe.
“Other Desert Cities” will play for Broadway’s Hudson Theatre, with previews starting Sept. 29 ahead of opening night on Oct. 18. The limited engagement will end on Jan. 17. John Benjamin Hickey is directing the revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s play, which premiered on Broadway in 2011.
Set on Christmas Eve in sunny Palm Springs, the story follows a wealthy, politically conservative family whose family is upended when their daughter reveals she’s written a tell-all memoir that exposes an explosive secret. As the logline teases: “As the past comes into focus, the question isn’t just what happened, but who owns a family’s story, and what is the cost to tell it.”
“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,” Baitz said. “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.”
