Calling fans of Hard Candy (the pedophile movie starring Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson, not the makeup): Variety reports today that David Harrower will be adapting his harrowing play Blackbird, which was put on by the Manhattan Theater Club last year with Jeff Daniels and Alison Pill, for the big screen. The story features only two characters—a middle-aged man and a young woman—who are reunited when the young woman hunts down the man to confront him about the affair they had when she was a girl. Don’t worry: There won’t be any castrating going on here (remember what happened to Mr. Wilson?). But that didn’t make the play any less affecting. Fingers crossed for a re-casting of Ms. Pill and Mr. Daniels, who shocked us with their terrifying and riveting stage performances.

Neil LaBute will make his long overdue Broadway debut with Reasons to Be Pretty, a play starring the glorious Alison Pill, Piper Perabo, Thomas Sadoski and Pablo Schreiber. All the actors, currently performing at the Off Broadway Lucille Lortel Theater, will return for the move to the Rialto next year, with performances slated to begin on Feb. 13, 2009 according to Variety.  read more »

Alison Pill, the gal we dubbed "glorious" last October, has been cast in Neil LaBute's new play reasons to be pretty, set for a June 2 opening night at the MCC Theater. According to The Observer's Lizzy Ratner, Ms. Pill has played "a scrappy girl terrorist in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore—a play that marked her Broadway debut and earned her a Tony nomination for featured actress. She has played the tormented victim of a Lolita-style love affair in Blackbird, an off-Broadway play for which she won all kinds of critical praise and, yes, more nominations (that time from the Outer Critics Circle and Drama League). She has played broken girlfriends and clinically depressed teens and, in Mauritius, a complicated young woman who also happen[ed] to be her first starring Broadway role."  read more »

The star of Mauritius plays dark on stage, but 21-year-old stage actress Alison Pill has an awful lot to smile about.  read more »