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Jon Robin Baitz

Jon Baitz's Journey to Other Desert Cities

Tom Teicholz | Posted 01.30.2013 | Arts
Read More: Jon Robin Baitz, Mark Taper Center, Other Desert Cities, Palm Springs, Brothers and Sisters, Palm Desert, Vietnam War, Arts News
Tom Teicholz

Baitz's play seeks an alternative way out of the seeming impasses of our times -- our political deadlocks, our family dramas, even our most heartfelt and ego-driven certitudes -- by making us experience a greater emotional truth.

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Guild Hall Celebrates Laurie Anderson, Bruce Weber, Jon Robin Baitz, and Dina Merrill

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.06.2012 | Home
Read More: Robert Mitchum, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Marshall Brickman, Bruce Weber, Ken Olin, Paul Davis, Eric Fishl, Jon Robin Baitz, Laurie Anderson, China Machado, Michael and Ninah Lynne, April Gornik, Dina Merrill, Ron Rifkin, Fern Mallis, Janet O?Brien, Lou Reed, Guild Hall Celebrates, Guild Hall, Home News
Regina Weinreich

Given the decidedly downtown edge to the awardees, the speeches were rather formal. Lou Reed presented to Laurie Anderson for Performing Arts.

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Failed TV Writer Is A Hit On Broadway

AP | By MARK KENNEDY | Posted 02.22.2012 | Home
Read More: Broadway, Theater, Jon Robin Baitz, Other Desert Cities, Brothers and Sisters, Jon Robin Baitz Other Desert Cities, The Film Society, Home News

NEW YORK -- It was F. Scott Fitzgerald who famously wrote there are no second acts in American lives. It is Jon Robin Baitz who says that's utter balo...

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HuffPost Review: Peep World

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Movie Reviews, Peep World Movie Review, Peep World, Marshall Fine, Sarah Silverman, Other Desert Cities, Judy Greer, Rainn Wilson, Lesley Anne Warren, Ron Rifkin, Jon Robin Baitz, Michael C. Hall, Barry Blaustein, Taraji Henson, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

As Peter Himmelstein's script jumps from a family birthday dinner back to the day before, we get a thumbnail of each Meyerwitz child's disappointing life.

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Stage Door: Other Desert Cities

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Theater, Jon Robin Baitz, Off-Broadway, Entertainment, Linda Lavin, Stacy Keach, Stockard Channing, New York News
Fern Siegel

Put Stockard Channing and Linda Lavin on stage and watch the magic. They play sisters on opposite sides, both political and familial, in the smartly staged Other Desert Cities.

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Words and Pictures: at Tibor de Nagy and Condo's Subversive Art at The New Museum

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Frank O'Hara, Jane Freilicher, Red Grooms, Kanye West, Marc Jacobs, Charles Henri Ford, Anne Waldman. George Condo, Bob Dishy, Jon Robin Baitz, Rudy Burkhardt, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, Allen Ginsberg, Kenward Elmslie, John Ashbery, Alex Katz, Tibor De Nagy, Joe Brainard, Duncan Hannah, LeeLee Sobieski, Judy Hudson, Poet Honore Moore, Joan Mitchell, Arts News
Regina Weinreich

On a random Friday afternoon between snowstorms, visitors to Tibor de Nagy's midtown gallery for the "Painters & Poets" exhibit marveled at the small ...

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Theater: Killer Kitson; Fairly Earnest; So-So Baitz and Interminable Ibsen

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Ibsen, Alan Rickman, Oscar Wilde, Brian Bedford, Fiona Shaw, Jon Robin Baitz, Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Broadway, St. Ann's Warehouse, Daniel Kitson, Stockard Channing, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

In the very first letter, Church plans to kill himself. But when he sends out a pile of final goodbyes (often to strangers and with little or no hint that he was planning to off himself), he unexpectedly gets some responses.

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First Nighter: Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities" is Red-Hot

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Brian Wilson, Oscar Wilde, John Lee Beatty, Other Desert Cities, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sadoski, The Little Foxes, Noel Coward, David Zinn, Jon Robin Baitz, Ronald Reagan Republicans, Paramount Studios, Elizabeth Marvel, Joe Mantello, Linda Lavin, Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse, ABC's Brothers and Sisters, Stacy Keach, Stockard Channing, Nancy Reagan, Entertainment News
David Finkle

In the living-room of the luxurious Palm Springs home where Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities takes place, a long, curved stone wall looms upst...

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