New York Times
Listen, You Brat, to Plain Truths About the Beauty Myth
Neil LaBute, the harsh and unforgiving chronicler of men’s darkest impulses, is making nice in his surprising new play.
A Mercy Killer, Dying a Little Death
Liza Lentini’s play flattens its hot-button topic, hitting too many wrong notes to provoke much thought or to jerk many tears.
ARTS BRIEFLY: Lyrics and Lyricists, and a Curator
The 92nd Street Y has announced its 2009 lineup for Lyrics & Lyricists, its popular series devoted to the American songbook.
ARTS, BRIEFLY; Footnotes
Brian Stokes Mitchell, 'Gone With the Wind', Shakespeare's Globe
New York Daily News
The good, bad & ugly, LaBute style
Beauty is more than skin deep, but you don't have to dig for the message of "reasons to be pretty," Neil LaBute's play having its world premiere at the Lucille Lortel.
amNY
A 'Pretty' intense play
Just as the Fringe Festival takes place in August and Richard Foreman's avant-garde spectacles start in January, the premiere of the latest Neil LaBute drama every June at the Lucille Lortel Theatre has become a new tradition in downtown theatergoing.
New York Post
It's pretty appealing
Neil LaBute continues to explore our obses sion with physical appearance and the way it wreaks havoc with personal relationships in "reasons to be pretty," the comic drama that opened last night. But unlike the provocative plays that preceded it - "Fat Pig," "The Shape of Things" - this one cuts thrillingly deep...
You snooze, you lose
As character traits go, ennui is probably the least dramatically compelling. This may be why Carly Mensch's new play, "Len...
New York Sun
Neil LaBute Finds Reasons To Be Nice
Architects, Theater Group Named Watermill Fellows
New York Journal News
First impressions last in 'pretty'
"reasons to be pretty" demands to be seen. Neil LaBute continues to have an unsparing view of the human condition in which hell, as Sartre famously said, is other people.
Hartford Courant
'Reasons To Be Pretty'
Neil Labute's play explodes instantly with a fusillade of obscene invective that would make David Mamet blanch. The attacks come from the incensed Steph, filled with righteous fury by the excellent Alison Pill.
Star-Ledger
Judging from appearances
Guys, ever wreck a nice relationship with a woman by making a stupid remark?
Lyricism of 'Amadeus' is mostly Salieri's
F. Murray Abraham was brilliant in his Oscar-winning performance as the tortured and tiny-talented Salieri in "Amadeus," but how about Robert Cuccioli in the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's production?
Bergen Record
Review: reasons to be pretty
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