Secrets Revealed: CVRep’s Splendid Production of ‘Other Desert Cities’ Manages to Be Both Heavy and Funny - Coachella Valley Independent

Secrets Revealed: CVRep’s Splendid Production of ‘Other Desert Cities’ Manages to Be Both Heavy and Funny - Coachella Valley Independent

Family secrets are like vampires. They never really die, and can always come back to bite you. —Alberta J. McMorrisCVRep’s production of Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities takes an in-depth look at the gnawing pain and dysfunction long-held secrets can create in families—and what can happen when those secrets finally revealed. The play opened on Broadway in 2011, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.The story centers around the…