See Other Desert Cities – Jon Robin Baitz’s razor-sharp family drama, following its success at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway. This incendiary play dissects family secrets, memory and the question of who owns a family’s story. Â
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Baitz’s play looks at family dysfunction, political legacy and the price of keeping secrets with intelligence and dark humour. There is no confirmed date for Other Desert Cities opening in the West End or confirmation of when tickets will go on sale.
What to expect from Other Desert Cities
The show’s story takes place on Christmas Eve in a sunlit Palm Springs home, as a politically connected family prepares for the holidays. But when their daughter Brooke returns from New York with a completed memoir, everything changes. She’s written the truth: the family’s secrets, the lies they’ve maintained, the inconvenient realities they’ve hidden from the world.
With cutting wit and brutal honesty, Other Desert Cities excavates old wounds and long-buried resentments, asking the question: who has the right to tell a family’s story, and what is the cost when that truth is finally revealed? It’s a fierce comedy about memory, loyalty, legacy and the desperate need to protect a carefully constructed façade. Â
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Other Desert Cities is Jon Robin Baitz’s examination of family, memory and the question of who owns a family’s story.
Set on Christmas Eve in a sunlit Palm Springs home, the play centres on the Wyeth family — politically connected, carefully curated, and deeply fractured — as their daughter Brooke returns from New York with a completed memoir that threatens to expose everything they’ve worked to hide.
With razor-sharp wit and cutting insight, Baitz excavates old wounds, buried resentments, political complications, and the lies families tell themselves to survive. The play asks urgent questions: What do we owe the truth? What do we owe our family? And who has the right to tell a family’s story?
Stars and Creatives
Who is in the cast of Other Desert Cities?
To be announced.
Who are the creative team of Other Desert Cities?
To be announced.
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