Sounds like a holiday to remember! Jon Robin Baitz's Tony Award-winning play Other Desert Cities has arrived on Broadway in a major revival, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery and Lily Rabe, with direction by John Benjamin Hickey.

Set in the sun-soaked home of a politically connected family in Palm Springs, the play follows a Christmas Eve reunion that takes a dramatic turn when a daughter returns with a memoir threatening to expose a long-buried family secret.

But does this Broadway revival deliver the family drama we've been waiting for? Let's see what the critics had to say...

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Other Desert Cities Critic Reviews

"Just in time for the holidays, Jon Robin Baitz's family reunion drama, Other Desert Cities, is back with an even starrier cast than its 2011 premiere. The revival is a headline-grabber for marking the stage debuts of Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Joe Keery, alongside the Broadway returns of Ed Harris, Allison Janney and Lily Rabe. But if this raises eyebrows as a takeover of Hollywood vanity, those concerns are easily quelled by the performances especially those of the newcomers. John Benjamin Hickey's staging is well attuned to its cast's abilities, more than justifying its speedy return to Broadway. This Pulitzer finalist play still has a lot to say." - The Guardian

"11 terrorist attacks, explores harmful ideologies, grief, depression, memory and how secrets can wrap themselves around a family, slowly choking it from the inside out. Revived for the first time since 2011, this production, directed by John Benjamin Hickey, is gutting, witty and painfully timely." - Variety

"The Wyeth family returns for a phenomenal revival of Other Desert Cities, with standout performances, including Julia Louis-Dreyfus's Broadway debut. The politics and ideological clashes hit even harder than when the play premiered 15 years ago." 1 Minute Critic

"Conversely, Rabe is consistently mesmerizing, proving why Brooke is the true fulcrum of this unbalanced tale. You are asking me to shut down something that makes me possible,' she screams at her parents. Your arguments for suppression mean I would die. Well, I've been dead before and I'm not going back. If it means that we're over, well, then it means we're over, and life will go on, one way or another.'"

"Rabe also beautifully carries the significant weight of the play's famously ambiguous epilogue, to which director Hickey has added a blink-and-miss-it grace note that poses more questions than it answers. That's an absolutely legitimate, if superfluous, directorial choice, and one that the playwright surely must have okayed. Yes, it's a bit frustrating in the fleetness of its execution and vague reverberations, but Other Desert Cities is nothing if not an exquisitely designed study of the malleability of truths long believed settled. Of course it demands reconsiderations, right up to the very end." - Deadline

"Other Desert Cities will make you feel things, both good and bad about your family, but be prepared: Once the final curtain goes down, you'll want to call your parents and thank them for everything." - Entertainment Weekly