LaBute takes the old saw that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and gives it new teeth.
Linked From Time Out New York at 12:00AMEdie Falco, Dominic Fumusa, Laura Benanti, Gretchen Mol, Anson Mount, and Bryan Singer help Marin Ireland, Steven Pasquale, Piper Perabo, and Thomas Sadoski celebrate the opening of reasons to be pretty.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMThe star of Broadway's Saturday Night Fever is about to open in Rock of Ages, but PLEASE don't tell him to "break a leg." Plus: Capsule reviews of Hair and a bunch of other great shows.
Linked From BroadwayStars at 12:00AMAaron Eckhart is in talks to star opposite Nicole Kidman in the bigscreen adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire's Broadway play "Rabbit Hole."
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMDalco worked with companies in Australia and London and helped produce many of the world's most popular modern musicals, including Oliver!, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Phantom Of The Opera, …
Linked From The Sydney Morning Herald at 12:00AMWill Ferrell's 'Bush' deemed a special event
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMWe love the marketing campaign at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMThis wonderfully acted production of Neil LaBute's play may turn out to be the sentimental sleeper of the season.
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 12:00AMNeil LaBute's ferociously funny "Reasons to Be Pretty," about fragile human relationships and the seemingly inconsequential details that threaten or even wreck them, has traveled successfull…
Linked From Bloomberg at 12:00AMThis latest chapter is a more mature, more satisfying work about one man's decision to grow up and face the consequences of what he has done. His emotionally bruising journey to adulthood is…
Linked From www.google.com at 12:00AMThe resulting play, which has been directed here by Terry Kinney and is fueled by a star-making performance from Thomas Sadoski, may be LaBute's tamest, but it's also his best.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 12:00AMNobody's going to call Neil LaBute a redemptive playwright, and even in this reflective mood, he's not exactly forgiving about men's failings and women's weaknesses. But there's compassion a…
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMIn the transition to Broadway, there have been cast changes and script tightening-with mixed results. Still, there are plenty of reasons to see "Reasons."
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMUltimately, though, the playwright delivers the goods, in a work that's lively and compulsively watchable and that offers a fresh take on the eternal matter of achieving adulthood.
Linked From NorthJersey.com at 12:00AMA quartet of fine actors, led by Thomas Sadoski and Marin Ireland, partially redeem Neil LaBute's too-familiar battle-of-the-sexes play.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMIf you've seen one Neil LaBute play, you've more or less seen them all.
Linked From weblogs.amny.com at 12:00AMNeil LaBute, Off-Broadway's most prolific playwright, has finally made it uptown with "reasons to be pretty," his first semioptimistic play -- which turns out not to be a good thing.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:00AMEditor's note: Michael Riedel is on vacation. Guest columnist Lynn Nottage, whose play "Ruined" has again extended its run at the Manhattan Theatre Club, tells how she got that story.
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMA one-woman show called "Shells" has developed a festively dedicated following by working the amorphous territory where cabaret, comedy and theater intersect.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMShow gives jukebox musicals a good name
Linked From Variety at 12:00AM'Mamma Mia' helmer steering 'Mary Stuart'
Linked From Variety at 12:00AM'For years now, the Steppenwolf ensemble has been raising the possibility of doing a Shakespeare play," said director Tina Landau.
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 12:00AMErvin Drake, about to turn 90, recalls the songs he wrote that made his career and became part of the soundtrack of his life.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:00AMJessica Alba, Bobby Cannavale, Ernie Hudson, Mitzi Gaynor, BarBara Luna, Edward Norton, Laura Osnes, Phylicia Rashad, and Dallas Roberts are among the stars caught by our cameras.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMWill Swenson plays the high-spirited Berger in "Hair" on Broadway, but at home, he relaxes by playing guitar and hanging with his two sons.
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMTHEY'VE both dished on their marriage in tell-all books -- which explains why Jane Fonda and Ted Turner have remained such pals.
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMJane Fonda is alive and well and back on Broadway. The play's pretty interesting, too.
Linked From Theater News Online at 12:00AMDeborah Zoe Laufer's irreverent yet deeply felt comedy humorously navigates the uncertain terrain of faith, love, and science.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AM"End Days" by Debora Zoe Laufer is ferociously good.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMTwo acts are too short a time to spend with Deborah Zoe Laufer's lovable characters in "End Days."
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMWith the help of her fantastic cast, director Lisa Peterson keeps the play moving at breakneck speed but still gives the audience time to empathize and laugh
Linked From CurtainUp at 12:00AMDeborah Zoe Laufer's sour-sweet comedy often feels artificial in its depiction of a damaged family forging a path back to wholeness.
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 12:00AMDespite all the content and all the cleverness, there's a prevailing emptiness here that director Lisa Peterson's staging on Lee Savage's appropriately cramped cardboard-box-chic living room…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 12:00AMTo those who might have wondered whether Kelli O'Hara's recent successes in "The Light in the Piazza," "The Pajama Game" and "South Pacific" were due to strong material and skilled direction…
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMThis radiant, wholesome singing actress with one foot in country music and the other in opera brings her all-American charm to the Café Carlyle for two weeks.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMThe three-time Tony nominee has the sort of innate sweetness that can't be faked, and it comes through loud and clear in her debut engagement at the Cafe Carlyle.
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMSo much of what John Tartaglia offered during his one-night Feinstein's at Loews Regency landing was cutesie-pootsie that it initially seemed a touch-and-go question as to whether what was r…
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMIt was the great Depression Era, but what up-lifting musicals there were in 1931 to help make people forget.
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 12:00AM... her best U.S. club outing to date. Seemingly, her next stop is a solo turn at Carnegie Hall
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 12:00AMTHE sight of William H. Macy sporting a Jew-fro as a divorced dad trying to help his nerdy son score with a prom date is among the myriad delights in the gut-bustingly funny "Bart Got a Room…
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