Other Desert Cities on Broadway: Holiday Weeks, Matinees and Closing Dates

Photos: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Allison Janney by PhilipRomano / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped, combined).

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Other Desert Cities on Broadway: Holiday Weeks, Matinees and Closing Dates

Other Desert Cities, the first Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s play, has 104 performances on the BuyTickets.com board at the Hudson Theatre, from Tuesday October 20, 2026 through its closing matinee on Sunday January 17, 2027. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery and Lily Rabe star, and the run is a limited engagement, so the holiday weeks and the final January performances are the dates people search for. This guide is the calendar: which days have matinees, what happens around Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, and how the run ends. Every date links to its own listing, and the full board is on our Other Desert Cities tickets page.

Other Desert Cities dates at a glance

  • Next performance: Tue Oct 20, 2026 · 7:00 PM
  • Most weeks: Tuesday to Friday at 7:00 PM, Wednesday at 1:00 PM, Saturday at 2:00 and 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM
  • No performances on Thursday November 26, December 24, 25 or 31, or January 1
  • 40 of the 104 performances are matinees; the rest start at 7:00 or 8:00 PM
  • Closing: Sunday January 17, 2027 at 3:00 PM

Thanksgiving week

There is no performance on Thanksgiving Day. Instead, Friday November 27 has two performances, a 1:00 PM matinee and a 7:00 PM evening. The full week:

Christmas week

The play is set on Christmas Eve in Palm Springs, but the theater is dark on December 24 and 25. Christmas week moves the schedule earlier, starting with a Monday evening and ending with two Sunday performances at 1:00 and 7:00 PM:

New Year’s week

New Year’s week follows the same shape. There is nothing on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day; the last performance of 2026 is Wednesday December 30 at 7:00 PM, and the run returns on Saturday January 2:

The final week

The limited engagement ends on Sunday January 17, 2027. The last week has the regular eight-performance schedule:

Closing weeks of a limited run with a star cast usually sell first and cost the most, along with Saturday evenings and the holiday weeks. Tuesday to Thursday evenings and Wednesday matinees in late October and November are often the value.

Cast, running time and seats

Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays Polly, Ed Harris plays Lyman, Allison Janney plays Silda, Joe Keery plays Trip and Lily Rabe plays Brooke, directed by John Benjamin Hickey. Understudies can go on at any performance. The play runs about 2 hours and 15 minutes with one intermission. It is a play, not a musical.

The Hudson Theatre, at 141 West 44th Street, opened in 1903 and has just under 1,000 seats on three levels. Center orchestra and the front of the mezzanine are closest to the faces in a one-room family drama; the balcony is steeper and usually the lowest price. Our ticket feed lists the theater as Millennium Hudson Theatre, which is the same building. See also Hudson Theatre tickets and New York tickets.

Buying Other Desert Cities tickets on BuyTickets.com

BuyTickets.com is independent ticket resale since 1999, not the Hudson Theatre box office, the producers or Ticketmaster. You see the all-in total before you pay, and every order has our 100% ticket guarantee. Delivery timing is shown on each listing. Start from the Other Desert Cities tickets page to compare every performance.