Julia Louis-Dreyfus will make her Broadway debut in Other Desert Cities, alongside Allison Janney, Ed Harris and more. 

Joe Keery and Lily Rabe will also appear in the revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s play, directed by John Benjamin Hickey. Other Desert Cities will play a 16-week limited engagement at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre, with previews starting Sept. 29 ahead of an Oct. 18 opening night. The limited engagement will end Sunday, Jan. 17, 2027. 

The play centers on a politically connected family whose Christmas Eve is upended when their daughter reveals she has written a tell-all book about a family tragedy that they have tried to keep secret. The play premiered off-Broadway in January 2011 and transferred that year. It was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for drama.

Hickey made his Broadway directing debut with Plaza Suite, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, in 2022. 

“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,” Baitz said. 

The cast brings together Dreyfus, an 11-time Emmy Award winner, with four-time Academy Award winner Harris and two-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award winner and seven-time Emmy Winner Janney. Keery makes his Broadway debut after his breakout role in Netflix’s Stranger Things. Rabe, who was previously Tony nominated for her role as Portia in  The Merchant of Venice, returns to Broadway after recently appearing in the TV series Shrinking.