On Stage Now: Other Desert Cities
A novelist returns home to her prominent California Republican parents with the manuscript of a new book " a memoir filled with very dirty laundry. Needless to say, the reunion is vexed. Jon Robin Baitz's play Other Desert Cities just arrived on Broadway, starring Stockard Channing and Stacey Keach. It's part comedy, part dark emotional thriller. Kurt Andersen talks with Baitz about how this combination of tensio…