Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery, Lily Rabe to star in 'Other Desert Cities' Broadway revival

Louis-Dreyfus and Keery will make their Broadway debuts in Jon Robin Baitz's play, directed by John Benjamin Hickey at the Hudson Theatre starting in September.

Summary

• Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Ed Harris; Allison Janney; Joe Keery; and Lily Rabe will star in Other Desert Cities on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre from September 29 to January 17
• Jon Robin Baitz's play follows a politically connected family whose secrets might be exposed
• Louis-Dreyfus and Keery make their Broadway debuts

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery, and Lily Rabe will lead the first Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz's drama Other Desert Cities, playing a limited engagement at the Hudson Theatre from September 29 to January 17. Opening night is October 18.

Other Desert Cities follows a politically connected family in Palm Springs whose explosive secrets are on the brink of being exposed when a daughter comes home with a memoir.

Eleven-time Emmy Award winner Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld, Veep) will make her Broadway debut as Polly alongside Tony nominee and four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris (The Hours, The Truman Show) as Lyman; two-time Tony nominee, Oscar winner, and seven-time Emmy winner Allison Janney (The West Wing, American Beauty) as Silda, Actor Award winner Joe Keery (Stranger Things) in his Broadway debut as Trip, and Tony nominee Lily Rabe (American Horror Story) as Brooke.

John Benjamin Hickey directs, and the creative team also includes set designer Scott Pask, costume designer Tom Broecker, lighting designer Natasha Katz, sound designer and composer Mikaal Sulaiman, and hair and wig designer Robert Pickens.

Baitz said in a statement, “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.”

Hickey said in a statement, “I have loved Robbie’s plays since he began writing them. I acted in two of them early in my career, and when I recently revisited Other Desert Cities, I was stunned at how relevant the play remains, maybe now more than ever. It’s an incredibly funny, surprising, and heartbreaking play about an American family. OUR American family. To be able to bring it back to Broadway, with this powerhouse ensemble of actors, and incredible creative team, is a dream come true.”

Check back for information on Other Desert Cities tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

Photo credit: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery, and Lily Rabe (Photos courtesy of production; Louis-Dreyfus photo by Christopher Anderson; Harris photo by O'Shane Howard; Janney photo by Robert Ascroft)