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Finishing out its 40th Mainstage Season, the Hangar Theatre will be producing the regional premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's 2012 Tony Award nominee for Best Play, 'Other Desert Cities'. Directed by Mark Shanahan, who is making his Hangar Theatre directing debut, Other Desert Cities will run from July 31, until August 9, 2014.

Brooke Wyeth (Piper Goodeve), a once promising novelist, returns home after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her conservative parents, Lyman (Greg Bostwick) and Polly (Susan Cella), her reality show producer brother Trip (Ryan Krause), and her aunt who was recently released from rehab Silda (Catherine Weidner).

The happy reunion is thrown into turmoil when Brooke announces her plans to publish a memoir that focuses on a long hidden family secret. The Wyeth family are both bound together and torn apart as they struggle to come to terms with their dark past.

'Other Desert Cities' features performances by the chair of Ithaca College's Theatre Arts Department, Catherine Weidner; Ithaca College Professor Greg Bostwick, as well as designs from other Ithaca College faculty and staff.


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