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“Other Desert Cities”

September 25, 2016 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Other Desert Cities
Jon Robin Baitz
City Lights Theater Company
 http://cltc.org

 

Lauren Tothero, Jeff Kramer & Mary Gibboney

It’s Christmas 2004 in a Jewish home in the desert; and the family is going through morning, holiday rituals before heading to the club for crab claws and roasted pork. 

Welcome to the loving Wyeth household, where a family reunion threatens in a matter of a few short hours to turn into family dissolution.  City Lights Theater Company opens its 34thseason with the Pulitzer runner-up of 2012 by Jon Robin Baitz, Other Desert Cities, in a production that is magnificently directed to near perfection by John McCluggage.

Please click to my full review on Talkin’ Broadway: http://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/sanjose/sj61.html.

Rating: 5 E

Other Desert Cities continues through October 23, 2016 at at 529 South Second Street, San Jose.  Tickets are available online at www.cltc.org.
Photo by Taylor Sanders.


  

Rating: 5 E Tags: City Lights Theater Company

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