For those who have not yet seen Jon Robin Baitz's Pulitzer-nominated "Other Desert Cities," the first of that prolific playwright's works to reach Broadway, the play's current production at …
Other Desert Cities press night report The Old Vic recreates its in-the-round auditorium for the UK premiere of hit US family drama Other Desert Cities. See the reactions from cast and audi…
Acting or reality; the two are hardly mutually exclusive. We live with each other's divergent truths because we know no other way to live. Our lives could be complete lies that we have no id…
Jon Robin Baitz's tense and gripping play is the perfect piece in which to experience the new and highly effective in the round formation at the Old Vic.
This excruciating, new play attacking the Reagans will send much of the Old Vic audience to sleep, says Tim Walker
This excruciating new play attacking the Reagans will send much of the Old Vic audience to sleep, says Tim Walker
FAMILY FLASHPOINT:Â OTHER DESERT CITIES OPENS APRIL 4 AT SILVER SPRING STAGE If families existed without conflict, stress, heartbreak, and deception"and if those difficulties weren't often…
O'Neill, Miller, Williams, Albee. More recently Tracy Letts with August, Osage County. There's a glorious line of American playwrights who have torn apart the myth of the all-American happy …
Set in-the-round at the Old Vic, Other Desert Cities brings a truly American family drama to the famous British stage. New York-based writer Brooke Wyeth (Martha Plimpton) spends Christmas w…
The Old Vic's new in-the-round season opens with the UK premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's 'blistering' family drama
Clare Higgins needs no introduction as one of Britain’s finest actresses, having won three Olivier Awards, as well as a 2003 Tony nod for her Broadway debut in Nicholas Wright's Vi…
Stars turned out to celebrate with the cast of The Old Vic's first production of their in-the-round season
Jon Robin Baitz acclaimed family drama receives its UK premiere starring Martha Plimpton, Sinead Cusack and Clare Higgins
Old Vic, LondonJon Robin Baitz's Christmas-set drama uses fractured nuclear families to examine the broken American psycheI was arguing with a friend the other day about whether plays should…
The Old Vic kicks off its second season of in-the-round productions with a witty, blistering play by American dramatist Jon Robin Baitz, the intimacy of the new configuration serving wel…
Old Vic Theatre, London: When Other Desert Cities transferred to Broadway's Booth Theatre in 2011, after premiering earlier that year at Lincoln Center's off-Broadway Mitzi Newhous…
Jon Robin Baitz learnt his craft writing on big American television shows including The West Wing and he created Brothers & Sisters, and Other Desert Cities - his first Broadwa…
PALM TREES ,POLITICS, LITERATURE , LOYALTIES.. With a fine dramatic flourish the Old Vic is again a theatre-in-the-round, as it was six years ago for the Norman Conquests. The refit (…
Laugh-out-loud funny but also bruising, says Charles Spencer
Three time Tony nominee and Raising Hope star Martha Plimpton makes her West End debut in Other Desert Cities, which opens at the Old Vic tonight
WhatsOnStage.com had 20 questions with the stage and screen star. Take a look at what she had to say.
LONDON (AP) -- Martha Plimpton is an American in London, grappling with all that ails the United States....
The tomboyish daughter of movie stars, Martha Plimpton never got the pretty-girl parts. But by 15, she was in The Goonies and dating River Phoenix. The actor talks to Ryan Gilbey about her l…
As Other Desert Cities comes to The Old Vic, three theatrical veterans discuss sibling rivalry, standing ovations and power politics