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Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris and
Allison Janney will star in Other Desert Cities. |
Eleven-time Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld, Veep, etc.) will make her Broadway debut in a revival of Jon Robin Baitz's
Other Desert Cities, beginning previews at the Hudson Theater on Sept. 29 with an opening set for Oct. 18. She will co-star with Ed Harris, Allison Janney (seven Emmys), Joe Kerry, and Lily Rabe. Tony winner John Benjamin Hickey will direct.
“I had, more or less, talked myself out of imagining Other Desert Cities back in New York,” said playwright Baitz said in a statement. “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.”
The play opened Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theater in 2011 with a cast including Stockard Channing, Linda Lavin, Stacy Keach, Thomas Sadoski, and Elizabeth Marvel. Joe Matello directed. The production transferred to Broadway with Judith Light (who won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress) and Rachel Griffiths replacing Lavin and Marvel.
The story concerns a family with political and show-biz connections facing a crisis over a Christmas holiday when the daughter announces she is writing a tell-all memoir, potentially exposing uncomfortable family secrets.
In other Broadway news, the previously announced London revival of Evita will arrive on Broadway at the Winter Garden (after Death of a Salesman and Much Ado About Nothing), with previews beginning Feb. 27, 2027 for a March 25 opening. Rachel Zeigler will repeat her Olivier Award-winning turn in the title role.  |
Rachel Zeigler in Evita in London.
Credit: Marc Brenner |
2026-27 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar
Spring 2026
May 28--: Girls : Chance : Music (Vineyard Theater)
Summer 2026
June 2--Theater World Awards (Longacre)
June 2--Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? (NY City Center Stage I) (Previews begin, opening TBA)
June 4--Girl, Interrupted (Public)
June 7--Tony Awards (Radio City Music Hall/CBS)
June 11--Romeo and Juliet (Delacorte)
June 17--La Cage Aux Folles (Encores!/City Center)
June 21--Henry VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts (NAATCO/Public)
June 24--Birthright (MCC)
July 14--The Whoopi Monologues (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
Bocking (New Group/Theater at St. Clements)
Fall 2026
Sept. 8--School Girls or The African Mean Girls Play (MTC/Friedman) (previews begin, opening TBA)
Sept. 15--Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Broadway (August Wilson)
Sept. 27--How Shakespeare Saved My Life (Public)
Oct. 9--Good Time Charley (Public)
Oct. 13--The Unbelievers (MTC/City Center)
Oct. 18--Other Desert Cities (Hudson)
Oct. 21--The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Public)
Nov. 3--We'll See (Public)
Nov. 5--The Verge (Public)
Nov. 8--Wanted (James Earl Jones)
Nov. 19--Much Ado About Nothing (Winter Garden)
860 (Shubert theater TBA)
Dreamgirls
The Heart (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
The Imaginary Invalid (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
Jackals (New Group/Theater at St. Clements)
Winter 2026-27
Dec. 1--Inter Alia (Music Box)
Dec. 6--Galileo: A Rock Musical (Shubert) (previews begin, opening TBA)
Are the Bennett Girls OK? (Public)
Mix and Master (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
The Grief Eater Near North Bender (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Welcome Table (Public)
Spring 2027
March 25--Evita (Winter Garden)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Damn Yankees
The Full Monty (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
Montauk (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
The Vagina Monologues (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
2026-27
Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo
Private Lives
Future--10 Things I Hate About You; Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; Coal Miner's Daughter; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; Dare To Be Stupid: The Weird Al Yankovic Musical; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Eurovision Song Contest; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Fahrenheit 451; The Fantasticks (Revised Version); Fire and Rain: The James Taylor Musical; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; Get Happy; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; Pal Joey; Particle Fever; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Slumdog Millionaire; Soul Train; Studio 54; Waking Ned Devine; Working Girl.
2026-27 Broadway Season Breakdown
New Plays
Inter Alia
Mix and Master
Montauk
Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Broadway
New Musicals
Galileo, A Rock Musical
Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo
Wanted
Play Revivals
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Imaginary Invalid
Much Ado About Nothing
Other Desert Cities
Private Lives
School Girls or the African Mean Girls Play
Musical Revivals
Damn Yankees
Dreamgirls
Evita
The Full Monty
Solos/Specialties
860 (Billy Crystal)
Celebrity Autobiography
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