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A political family confronts its dark history in this Pulitzer Prize-finalist play "with gleaming dialogue [and] tantalizing hints of a dangerous mystery" (Ben Brantley, The New York Times).
Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Brooke Wyeth hasn't been home to visit her parents in years. But now she's back in Palm Springs for Christmas, and she has a startling announcement to make. Brooke is about to publish a detailed and intimate family memoir—one that will open a wound her politically prominent parents don't want reopened.
First appearing on Broadway in a hit production starring Stacy Keach and Stockard Channing, Other Desert Cities "examine[s] the fractiousness of American politics through the prism of one family" (David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter).
Praise for Other Desert Cities
A Finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Drama
Nominated for the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play
“The most richly enjoyable new play for grown-ups that New York has known in many seasons. . . . In his most fully realized play to date, Mr. Baitz makes sure our sympathies keep shifting among the members of the wounded family portrayed here. Every one of them emerges as selfish, loving, cruel, compassionate, irritating, charming and just possibly heroic. . . . leaves you feeling both moved and gratifyingly sated.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“Other Desert Cities is a winner . . . funny and fierce, invigorating and intelligent.” —Joe Dziemianowicz, Daily News
“Baitz’s script sparkles with a deep understanding oif the turmoil boiling beneath the surface of his characters and it is chock-full of wonderful lines.” —Mark Kennedy, Associated Press
“This scathingly funny, deeply felt family drama is the tastiest, most entertaining new play of the season . . . with a wisdom and compassion—and sureness of touch—that make this his most mature, moving, and flat-out enjoyable work to date.”—Adam Green, Vogue
“A master of crackling dialogue . . . Baitz manages to engage matters of public and private morality—and public and private ideology—with and energy, and a minimum of self-flagellation.”—Scott Brown, New York magazine
“Baitz’s latest familial drama manages to be funny, cutting and illuminating. Secrets, lies and betrayals play out against a backdrop of Californian affluence and restraint. This is rich dysfunction—zingers are delivered with a whiskey chaser.” —Fern Siegel, The Huffington Post
Jon Robin Baitz’s plays include My Beautiful Goddamn City, Ten Unknowns, The Paris Letter, Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks, A Fair Country, The Substance of Fire, and an adaptation of Hedda Gabler.