Broadway has seen a steady march of Hollywood stars make their way to the Broadway stage.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus will be making her Broadway debut this fall in a revival of the play “Other Desert Cities”.
The play is set for performances to begin September 29 at the Hudson Theatre with an official opening on October 18. The play is set for a limited run to end on January 17, 2027.
Tony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey has assembled a star cast for the production including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery, and Lily Rabe.
”Other Desert Cities” first appeared on Off-Broadway in 2011 before moving on to Broadway.
It tells the story of a writer whose family has opposing political views. The writer threatens to write a “tell-all” book that will expose a family secret.
Play creator Jon Robin Baitz spoke on the production via a statement saying, “I had, more or less, talked myself out of imagining ‘Other Desert Cities’ back in New York. 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 don and call that a life.”
Hickey adds, “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. I’ts an incredibly funny, surprising, and heartbreaking play about an American family. OUR American family. To be able to brings it back to Broadway, with this powerhouse ensemble of actors, and incredible creative team, is a dream come true.”
Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning June 3 at 10am on OtherDesertCitiesBroadway.com.
“Oh, Mary!” creator Cole Escola has played the starring role of Mary Todd Lincoln twice in its award winning run.
Now Escola will be debuting the same role on the West End in London in a limited engagement four week run from July 20 to August 15.
The production itself has been extended through the end of the year til January 2, 2027.
The play focuses on Mary Todd Lincoln’s life in the weeks prior to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater.