Different Desert Cities is a 2010 play by Jon Robin Baitz – about whose writing I have waxed very rude on the internet! I as soon as used the phrase “a complete disaster of narrative structure” and likewise wrote that an episode of Feud was “45 minutes of programming that felt like a series of assignments for an advanced Writing For the Theatre class completed by a marginally talented student who is very annoying in class” and I stand by that – that’s at present getting a Julia Louis-Dreyfus-fronted revival on Broadway, one which that’s gotten a mixed-to-positive review in the New York Times. (JLD, Allison Janney, and Joe Keery are allegedly nice; the set, instructions, and Lily Rabe don’t fare as effectively.) It was a Pulitzer finalist when it was first produced – so presumably its narrative construction is okay – and now it is again! Let’s have a look at what folks wore to its large opening evening.
