In Other Desert Cities, Brooke Wyeth (Elizabeth Marvel), a once promising novelist, returns home after a six year absence to celebrate Christmas in Palm Springs with her parents (Stockard Channing and Stacy Keach), former members of the Reagan inner-circle, her brother (Thomas Sadoski), and her aunt (Linda Lavin). When Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir focusing on an explosive chapter in the family’s history, the holiday reunion is thrown into turmoil and the Wyeths are both bound together and torn apart as they struggle to come to terms with their past.
Lincoln Center Theater production of Jon Robin Baitz' Other Desert Cities, directed by Joe Mantello, opens Thursday (January 13) at 6:45pm at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 W. 65 Street.). (more...)