Other Desert Cities playwright Jon Robin Baitz: ‘The American dream has definitely died’

Other Desert Cities playwright Jon Robin Baitz: ‘The American dream has definitely died’

When Other Desert Cities came to Broadway in 2011, Jon Robin Baitz’s acclaimed family drama captured a country wrestling with political division; due to its insights, it became a 2012 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Fifteen years later, as the play returns to Broadway in a new production starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Lily Rabe, and Joe Keery, Baitz believes the America of today has moved far beyond the one h…