{"id":605121,"date":"2026-05-26T17:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605121\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:12:08","slug":"julia-louis-dreyfus-to-make-broadway-debut-in-other-desert-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605121\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Louis-Dreyfus To Make Broadway Debut In ‘Other Desert Cities’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJulia Louis-Dreyfus<\/a> will make her Broadway<\/a> debut alongside Ed Harris, Allison Janney<\/a>, Joe Keery<\/a> and Lily Rabe<\/a> in the first Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz\u2019s Tony Award-winning play Other Desert Cities<\/a>, directed by Tony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther Desert Cities will play a 16-week limited engagement at Broadway\u2019s Hudson Theatre with previews starting Tuesday, September 29 ahead of a Sunday, October 18 opening night. The limited engagement will end Sunday, January 17, 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe production and casting were announced today by producers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI had, more or less, talked myself out of imagining Other Desert Cities back in New York,\u201d said playwright Baitz said in a statement. \u201cBut John Hickey is family to me, and I trust him completely. We go back longer than I ever imagined: he hears a play \u2013 its ideas, its feeling, its music \u2013 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\u2019s 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\u2019ve done and call that a life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHickey said, \u201cI have loved Robbie\u2019s 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\u2019s an incredibly funny, surprising, and heartbreaking play about an American family. OUR American family. To be able to bring it back to Broadway, with this powerhouse ensemble of actors, and incredible creative team, is a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOther Desert Cities premiered Off Broadway in a limited engagement at Lincoln Center Theater in 2011, with the cast including Stockard Channing, Linda Lavin, Stacy Keach, Thomas Sadoski and Elizabeth Marvel. The play transferred to Broadway\u2019s Booth Theatre that year, with Lavin replaced by Judith Light and Rachel Griffiths taking over for Marvel. The play was directed by Joe Mantello.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe official synopsis: \u201cEvery family has a secret. Not every family survives it. On Christmas Eve, the sunlit Palm Springs home of a politically connected family becomes a battleground of memory, loyalty, and legacy when a daughter returns with a memoir and the power to expose the explosive truth they\u2019ve kept hidden. As the past comes into focus, the question isn\u2019t just what happened, but who owns a family\u2019s story, and what is the cost to tell it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe design team for Other Desert Cities will include three-time Tony Award winner Scott Pask (scenic design), Emmy Award winner Tom Broecker (costume design), eight-time Tony Award winner Natasha Katz (lighting design), two-time Tony Award nominee Mikaal Sulaiman (sound design and original music) and Robert Pickens (hair and wig design).<\/p>\n

\n\tOther Desert Cities is produced by ATG Productions, Bad Robot Live, Gavin Kalin Productions, Kristin Caskey, Bee Carrozzini and Mike Isaacson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julia Louis-Dreyfus will make her Broadway debut alongside Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery and Lily Rabe in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[206337,15000,6491,96,27066,65862,206338,206339,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-605121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-allison-janney","tag-broadway","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-joe-keery","tag-julia-louis-dreyfus","tag-lily-rabe","tag-other-desert-cities","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}