Springfield Contemporary Theatre opens their production of Jon Robin Baitz's award-winning play "Other Desert Cities" tonight (Friday March 17) and running through April 2nd at Center Stage in Wilhoit Plaza. In beginning the interview that aired this morning on KSMU's "Arts News," I allude to "backstage in the entertainment industry" as being at the center of this play. Director Dr. Robert Bradley qualifies that description somewhat. Bradley describes Lyman Wyeth, the family patriarch in the story, as a longtime Hollywood B-movie actor. He and his screenwriter wife Polly were friends with Ronald and Nancy Reagan, and "throughout the play we keep getting Ronnie and Nancy's names dropped from time to time. So I suppose one could call it 'backstage', both in the movie industry but also politics." Politics aside, nearly everyone in the family is or has been in the entertainment industry, either film or TV. All, that is, except daughter Brooke, who is a novelist and lives on the East Coast
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