The producers of Other Desert Cities have handed one evening of the Broadway revival to the Entertainment Community Fund: the 7 p.m. performance on Sunday, January 3, 2027, two weeks before the limited run ends at the Hudson Theatre, will be a benefit, with the entire ticket take going to the charity.
The arrangement is a simple one: every dollar of ticket revenue from that single performance goes straight to the Fund. The general on-sale date for benefit tickets has not been announced yet.
Its place in the calendar is worth noting. Jon Robin Baitz’s play began previews on Tuesday, September 29, opens on Sunday, October 18, and is scheduled to close on Sunday, January 17, 2027, so the benefit falls in the last fortnight of a limited engagement.
The Entertainment Community Fund, which operated as The Actors Fund until it changed its name, is a national human services organization for people who work in performing arts and entertainment, and has been in existence since 1882. Its services fall into three areas: health and wellness, career and life, and housing. Its work is described in full at entertainmentcommunity.org. The Fund is also the beneficiary of the gala marking thirty years of Chicago on Broadway on November 16.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, an 11-time Emmy winner, and Joe Keery are both making their Broadway debuts in the production. They are joined by Ed Harris, a Tony nominee with four Academy Award nominations, Allison Janney, an Academy Award winner and two-time Tony nominee, and Tony nominee Lily Rabe. Japhet Balaban, Tony Carlin, Amanda Drinkall and Kathryn Meisle are the understudies.
The play is set on Christmas Eve in Palm Springs, where a family with deep political connections has a daughter come home carrying the manuscript of a memoir. What she has written threatens to put a long-buried family event on the record, and the argument that follows is less about the facts than about whose story it is to tell, and at what price.
Design is by Scott Pask (sets), Tom Broecker (costumes), Natasha Katz (lighting), Mikaal Sulaiman (sound and original music) and Robert Pickens (hair and wigs), with casting by Jim Carnahan and Richard Hodge as production stage manager. The producers are ATG Productions, Bad Robot Live, Gavin Kalin Productions, Kristin Caskey, Bee Carrozzini and Mike Isaacson, and Samuel Dallas / Envoy Theatricals is general manager.
The Hudson Theatre is at 141 West 44th Street. The rush and lottery terms for the run, both priced at $49, are set out in our earlier report.
