Critics praised Other Desert Cities when it opened at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzie E. Newhouse Theater Jan. 13 under the direction of Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, who returns for the Broadway run. It will officially open Nov. 3.
The Broadway engagement reunites major players from the Off-Broadway world premiere, as well as a handful of new faces.
Original Off-Broadway cast members reprising their performances include Tony winner Stockard Channing (Six Degrees of Separation, The House of Blue Leaves) as family matriarch Polly Wyeth, Golden Globe winner Stacy Keach (Indians, "Hemingway") as her husband Lyman and Tony nominee Thomas Sadoski (Reasons to Be Pretty) as their son Trip.
New to the Broadway production are Tony Award nominee Judith Light (Lombardi, "Ugly Betty"), who takes on the role of acidic alcoholic aunt Silda Grauman, with "Brothers & Sisters" star Rachel Griffiths as daughter Brooke Wyeth, who comes home with news of a shattering new book. Linda Lavin and Elizabeth Marvel originated the roles Off-Broadway, respectively.
Here's a look at the production:
Here's how LCT bills the play: "In Other Desert Cities Brooke Wyeth (Griffiths), 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 (Channing and Keach), her brother (Sadoski) and her aunt (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."
Tickets are currently on sale through Jan. 8, 2012. For tickets, priced $56.50-$126.50, visit Telecharge. A limited number of tickets priced $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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