Theatre in New York is dominated by musicals and star-cast revivals and the chances of new plays reaching Broadway are reduced even further by the absence of a subsidised circuit. Every so often, though, an original drama becomes a hit there and one of them – Jon Robin Baitz’s 2010 success, Other Desert Cities – comes to its UK premiere with high praise from American critics.Students of modern American drama soon note that certain elements recur across the work of several major writers: Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee and Sam Shepherd have all resonantly dealt with American families harbouring secrets and a lost child. And, in this respect, Other Desert Cities has the feel of a mash-up of classic US plays.The Wyeth family gather for