OTHER DESERT CITIES Begins Performances at the Booth Theatre Tonight

Jon Robin Baitz's OTHER DESERT CITIES will be playing at The Booth Theatre, 222 West 45th Street beginning tonight, October 12 at 8 pm.  Opening night is Thursday, November 3, at 6:45 pm.The production is directed by Joe Mantello and Produced by the Lincoln Center Theater.   The cast includes  Stockard Channing, Rachel Griffiths, Stacy Keach, Judith Light and Thomas Sadoski

In Other Desert Cities Brooke Wyeth (Rachel Griffiths in her Broadway debut), a once promising novelist, returns home after a six year absence to celebrate Christmas in Palm Springs with her parents, former members of the Reagan inner-circle (Stockard Channing and Stacy Keach), her brother (Thomas Sadoski) and her aunt (Judith Light). 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.

Other Desert Cities won the 2011 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play and was nominated for multiple Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards, including Best Play for its off Broadway production last winter.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8 pm
Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2 pm
Sunday matinees at 3 pm
Beginning Nov. 8 Tuesday evenings are at 7 pm

Thanksgiving Holiday schedule changes: No performance on Thurs., Nov. 24 and
Two performances on Friday, Nov. 26 at 2 and 8 pm.

Tickets to OTHER DESERT CITIES, priced from $56.50 to $126.50 will be available beginning Sunday, August 14 at telecharge.com or by visiting www.lct.org. A limited number of tickets priced at $31.50 will be available at every performance through LincTix, LCT's new program for 21 to 35 year olds. For information and to enroll, visit LincTix.org.

 

 

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