Neil LaBute

LaBute's Reasons to Be Pretty Heads to Broadway

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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 »

Glorious Alison Pill Has Reasons to Be Pretty

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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 »

LaBute Tells It Like It Is- Again! Men Are Jerks

I very rarely hear from anyone I write about, though Neil LaBute is an exception.  read more »

LaBute Tells It Like It Is— Again! Men Are Jerks

Fran Drescher.
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Fran Drescher.

I very rarely hear from anyone I write about, though Neil LaBute is an exception.  read more »

Nanny Shows Fanny

Drescher to kill! Fran at DB Bistro Moderne.
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Drescher to kill! Fran at DB Bistro Moderne.

Sitting in a corner banquette at DB Bistro Moderne the other day, the actress Fran Drescher quite un  read more »

How Nice of Denzel to Join Us! But This Brutus Is a Bust

I must say that I've never appreciated movie stars who treat theater as a form of charity work.  read more »

Fat Pig Raises Familiar Question: Are LaBute's Men Interesting?

Neil LaBute's Fat Pig is basically about a fat girl, Helen, and an attractive young man, Tom, who fa  read more »

Women On Top In LaBute's Latest

Neil LaBute wants to clear it up: The provocative, critically respected, commercially successful (so  read more »

Mercy Me! Terrorism at Home: LaBute Lovers In Domestic War

The plays-the disturbingly fashionable plays-of Neil LaBute are problematic for me.  read more »

It's True: A Charming German Love Story, With Great Food

Sandra Nettelbeck's Mostly Martha, from her own screenplay, is a minor miracle: a German movie that  read more »

Eastwood Shows He Still Has Heart

Stoic and wooden as a totem, Clint Eastwood is back. In a time of need, he's the man.  read more »

My 2000 Picks: Douglas, Zellweger, Count on Me

People have been asking me when I'm going to publish my 10-best list for the movie year 2000, and I'  read more »

If Bash Is a Contact Sport, Where's the Blood?

Neil LaBute's inarticulate, sick characters couldn't be more fashionable, particularly when one of t  read more »

LaBute's Perfectly Miserable Types Wage War in the Bedroom

Neil LaBute's Your Friends and Neighbors confirms our suspicions that the misanthropic cutting edge  read more »

Men (and Women) Behaving Badly

The neurotic tango we call the mating game gets a high colonic in Your Friends and Neighbors , a sec  read more »