New in 2009 Provocative playwright Neil LaBute explores America's obsession with physical beauty in a play the Daily News calls "an incisive look at the tricky terrain of young relationships" and AP calls "his most compassionate, appealing work to date."
The Broadway production of reasons to be pretty closed June 14, 2009. For current Broadway show listings and tickets, please click here.
A plot synopsis from the production's press office: Greg’s tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand remarks about a female coworker's pretty face (and his girlfriend’s lack thereof) get back to said girlfriend.
Mr. LaBute, who is best known for the 1997 film "In The Company of Men" writes challenging plays, to say the least. Among his many gifts is an unerring ear for dialogue - few translate the real speech of real people to the stage like LaBute. About the Off-Broadway production of this show, the NY Times wrote "a firestorm of abuse and invective, hot enough to scald the hide off a thick-skinned man, blasts through the opening minutes....as a young woman attacks her boyfriend, at ear-scraping volume, with every epithet within her vocabulary."
Here are excerpts from interviews with the playwright and director done during the Off-Broadway run at MCC Theater:
May be inappropriate for 12 and under. Children under the age of 4 are not permitted in the theatre.
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