Summary

Jon Robin Baitz’s great political-family drama gets a second life 15 years after its premiere starring Stockard Channing Shortly after the Broadway premiere of Jon Robin Baitz’s “Other Desert Cities” in 2011, I interviewed one of its stars about playing the doyenne of a famous, albeit fictitious, Republican family living in Palm Springs. Stockard Channing told me that her character, Polly Wyeth, carried a two-ton weight on her shoulders from the moment she stepped on stage.

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