NEW YORK — There’s a casual cockiness to the way “Other Desert Cities” raises the curtain and promptly unveils a slew of megawatt stars.
Behold, here on the Hudson Theatre stage, the 11-time Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus in all her quipping glory. Four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris. “Stranger Things” heartthrob Joe Keery. Revered character actress Lily Rabe. When Allison Janney meanders onstage a half-hour into the play — naturally prompting applause for a performer boasting eight Emmys and an Oscar — you realize that any more entrances would’ve morphed the first act into an avalanche of ovations.