“CVRep’s Other Desert Cities is a very well-acted production that peels back the curtain on a loving, yet dysfunctional family trying to make sense of the past and navigate their way to a positive future—something to which we can all relate.”–-Bonnie Gilgallon, CVIndependent

“The preview of the Coachella Valley Repertory production of “Other Desert Cities,” which formally opens tonight in Cathedral City, is the fourth iteration of the show I’ve seen. I watched it in Los Angeles after its Broadway run and I saw it in the CVRep’s tiny Rancho Mirage theater in 2013. Of course, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated play also has had productions in other desert cities.

But this Cathedral City show is the best I’ve seen, largely because director Philip Wm. McKinley uses his knowledge of the desert to make it hyper local.” By: Bruce Fessier

“As a regular theatergoer who has seen Jon Robin Baitz‘s Other Desert Cities before–twice in the Coachella Valley–I wasn’t expecting to be surprised. Well, it was more than a play; it was an experience. At rise, I found myself embraced by a set that invited me into the living room of an upscale Palm Spring home. From that moment on, I was captured by the sensitive acting and masterful direction in this stunning production at Coachella Valley Repertory Theatre in Cathedral City. “By: June August, BroadwayWorld