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POLITICS ARE PERSONAL: DIRECTOR’S NOTES OTHER DESERT CITIES OPENED OFF-BROADWAY TO HUGE CRITICAL ACCLAIM IN 2011, MOVING QUICKLY TO BROADWAY AT THE BOOTH THEATRE LATER THAT YEAR. It earned playwright Jon Robin Baitz the Outer On first exposure to Other Desert Cities a couple of years ago, I was struck by the love, humor, political sparring and fragile emotions shared between the five character