{"id":362558,"date":"2026-10-02T04:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362558\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T04:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:34:16","slug":"look-back-on-the-original-broadway-production-of-other-desert-cities-starring-stockard-channing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362558\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Back on the Original Broadway Production of Other Desert Cities, Starring Stockard Channing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz<\/a>‘s\u00a0Other Desert Cities<\/a>\u00a0began performances at the\u00a0Hudson Theatre September 29 starring Lily Rabe<\/a>, Ed Harris<\/a>, Julia Louis-Dreyfus<\/a>,\u00a0Allison Janney<\/a>, and Joe Keery<\/a>. Opening night is October 18 and will run until January 27, 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other Desert Cities\u00a0first ran Off-Broadway in 2011 before transferring to Broadway the same year.\u00a0It\u00a0centers on a wealthy conservative couple living in Palm Springs, California, whose long-estranged daughter Brooke returns. A liberal, Brooke threatens\u00a0to publish a tell-all memoir exposing a long-held family secret. <\/p>\n

The original production ran at the\u00a0Booth Theatre, beginning performances\u00a0October 12, 2011. It was a hit, running\u00a0for nine months until\u00a0June 17, 2012. It starred\u00a0Stockard Channing<\/a> and\u00a0Stacy Keach<\/a> as a\u00a0married couple, former screen writer\u00a0Polly and former Ronald Reagan<\/a> staffer\u00a0Lyman.\u00a0Rachel Griffiths<\/a>, in her Broadway debut, played their daughter Brooke.\u00a0Judith Light<\/a> played Polly’s sister, a recovering alcoholic.\u00a0Thomas Sadoski<\/a> played Trip, Brooke’s brother. In 2012,\u00a0Other Desert Cities was named\u00a0a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prizer for Drama.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other Desert Cities\u00a0received five 2012 Tony\u00a0nominations, including Best Play. It won one Tony, for Light’s performance. Look back at the original production below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz‘s\u00a0Other Desert Cities\u00a0began performances at the\u00a0Hudson Theatre September 29 starring Lily…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-362558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}