Other Desert Cities to close on 17 Jun 2012

The Lincoln Center Theater (LCT) critically acclaimed Broadway transfer of Jon Robin Baitz's new play, Other Desert Cities, directed by Joe Mantello, will play its final performance at the Booth Theatre on 17 Jun 2012. When the show closes it will have played 25 previews and 261 regular performances.

The play opened at the Booth Theatre on 3 Nov 2011, following previews from 12 Oct 2011, for a limited performance that was originally scheduled to end on 8 Jan 2012.

Other Desert Cities opened to excellent reviews: Fine work in every way! (newyorktheatreguide); Witty, deeply enjoyable family drama (NY Times); One of the best new plays of the decade (NY1); Richly satisfying (Hollywood Reporter).

LCT premiered Other Desert Cities at the Off-Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, where it played from 16 Dec 2010 - 27 Feb 2011.

The cast features Stockard Channing (Polly Wyeth), Elizabeth Marvel (Brooke Wyeth), Stacy Keach (Lyman Wyeth), Judith Light (Silda Grauman) and Thomas Sadoski (Trip Wyeth), who all originated their roles off-Broadway.

For the Broadway run Rachel Griffiths originated the role of 'Brooke Wyeth,' until Marvel returned to the show on 6 Mar 2012. Justin Kirk and Matthew Risch also played the role of 'Trip Wyeth' on Broadway.

In Other Desert Cities, Brooke Wyeth, 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, her brother and her aunt. 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.

The play was nominated for five 2012 Tony Awards: Best Play; Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play (Stockard Channing); Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play (Judith Light); Best Scenic Design of a Play and Best Lighting Design of a Play. Winners are announced on 10 Jun 2012.

The Broadway production of Other Desert Cities reunites Lincoln Center Theater's original design team: John Lee Beatty (sets), David Zinn (costumes), Kenneth Posner (lighting), Jill BC DuBoff (sound) and Justin Ellington (original music).