NEW YORK – It was F. Scott Fitzgerald who famously wrote there are no second acts in American lives. It is Jon Robin Baitz who says that’s utter baloney.
“There’s nothing but second acts,” the playwright says over coffee in the café of a Greenwich Village hotel.
He should know: Baitz was a well-regarded writer of such plays as “The Film Society” and the Pulitzer Prize finalist “A Fair Country” when he left New York for Hollywood in 2002 to create the TV show “Brothers Sisters.”
But finding frustration at every turn, Baitz lasted only a few years before being fired and fleeing back East. He has re-emerged with the drama “Other Desert Cities,” easily his best-reviewed play and the first of his original works to make it to Broadway.
“I always felt that there was something else to come,” says Baitz. “I sort of wake up every day in a kind of weird state of gratitude. It feels like a war ended for me, actually.”
Baitz in person is soft-spoken and utterly charming, happy to talk about any topic with a dash of wit and plenty of wisdom. Over the course of an hour interview at the Jane Hotel in Manhattan, which he
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