Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Jon Robin Baitz’s family drama “Other Desert Cities” wastes no time acquainting us with the Wyeths. Lyman and Polly and their adult children Brooke and Trip ...

"Other Desert Cities" is not the first play to turn a family gathering into a battleground - but it's one of the best of its breed to appear in recent theater seasons. Making its Houston premiere in ...

The often-incendiary politics of the 1960s and the climate surrounding America’s 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, viewed through the interpersonal dynamics of a prominent family, could yield the theater ...

“Write as if your parents are dead.” That was Philip Roth’s tip to Ian McEwan when the younger novelist was just starting out. It sounds cold-blooded, but if you’re trying to transmute your personal ...