**OTHER DESERT CITIES**
**By Jon Robin Baitz**
**A Benefit Reading for Ruskin Group Theatre**

**Featuring Calista Flockhart and Dylan McDermott, with Terry Walters**
**Directed by Rob Morrow**

Please join us **Saturday, December 12** for drinks, heavy hors d’oeuvres, and a special reading of *Other Desert Cities* to benefit Ruskin Group Theatre.

We’re thrilled that **Calista Flockhart, Dylan McDermott, Terry Walters, and Rob Morrow** are giving their time and talent to help support the theatre. With only about 80 seats in our **Kaplan Family Stage**, this will be a pretty special evening.

Jon Robin Baitz’s play follows a family gathering for Christmas in Palm Springs that gets complicated when a daughter announces she’s publishing a memoir. It’s funny, moving, and a great play to bring this group together for.

We raised more than $1.5 million to open our new performing arts center this year, and we’re proud of what we’ve built. But opening the doors is only part of it. We need your help to keep producing the plays, paying the artists and staff, and doing the work that has made Ruskin a home for so many people over the past two decades.

We’d love for you to join us. Have a drink, enjoy some food and a great play, and help us keep this place going.

**Tickets: $400 per person**
Includes drinks, heavy hors d’oeuvres, and the benefit reading. A portion of your ticket purchase is tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.

**Saturday, December 12, 2026**
**Ruskin Group Theatre Arts Center**
2800 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica

*This is a benefit reading not a fully staged production*