Julia Louis-Dreyfus is heading to Broadway for the first time.
The Veep alum will be making her debut alongside a ton of stars in the first Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz‘s Other Desert Cities.
Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery, And Lily Rabe will also star in the John Benjamin Hickey-directed production, which will play a 16-week limited engagement at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre.
Previews begin Tuesday, September 29, with opening night set for Sunday, October 18. The show will run through Sunday, January 17, 2027.
“I had, more or less, talked myself out of imagining Other Desert Cities back in New York. But John Hickey is family to me, and I trust him completely. We go back longer than I ever imagined: he hears a play – its ideas, its feeling, its music – 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’s 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’ve done and call that a life,” the playwright said in a statement.
Here’s a synopsis: “Every 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’ve kept hidden. As the past comes into focus, the question isn’t just what happened, but who owns a family’s story, and what is the cost to tell it.”
The play was first staged on Broadway in 2011, and was nominated five times at the Tonys, including Best Play.
Amex Presale Tickets will be available starting Wednesday, May 27 at 10 a.m. ET through Wednesday, June 3 at 9:59 a.m. ET at otherdesertcitiesbroadway.com. Tickets can also be purchased by calling 855-801-5876.
Tickets for Other Desert Cities will go on sale to the general public starting Wednesday, June 3 at 10 AM at otherdesertcitiesbroadway.com.
At the same time, another Broadway production just announced its closing date.
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