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EPISODE · Jun 16, 2026 · 35 MIN

From the Archives: Jon Robin Baitz

from Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin · host iHeartPodcasts

Jon Robin Baitz is a playwright who admits that writing plays is tricky. He’s a snob for Broadway, where the cachet and laughs are bigger. But deep down, this award-winning playwright considers it a privilege to be working in American theater at all. Alec speaks to Baitz about his Broadway debut play, Other Desert Cities, that came from a place of despair and loss—and his own personal experience writing for television in Hollywood. Originally aired June 4th, 2012.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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