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Seduction is an art in Neil LaBute's "The Shape of Things," but art is also a form of seduction disguising itself as reality when it is purely fanciful.

Say what you will about Neil LaBute's often nasty battles between the sexes, but the person who influenced him most was .

Critics have dubbed him a misanthrope - a person who hates humankind. That's a rather daunting title to have in the back of one's head when getting ready to call playwright, screenwriter and director Neil LaBute, nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play for "Reasons to Be Pretty." A graduate of Brigham Young University, LaBute has ruffled more than ...

The producers of Neil LaBute 's Reasons To Be Pretty, the best new Broadway play of the season*, have announced a new summer performance schedule.

Ethan Hawke, Rachel Weisz, and Jude Law are not the only film stars to hit the British stage .

Reasons To Be Pretty was recently nominated for 3 Tony Awards, including Best Play, 2 Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Outstanding New Broadway Play, 3 Drama League Awards, including Distinguished Production of a Play and 4 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Play.

Casting is now complete for the Donmar Warehouse's production of A Streetcar Named Desire , which will begin performances July 23 prior to an official opening July 28.

Following a spate of successful post-show talkbacks, the best new Broadway play of the season* Reasons To Be Pretty has announced that actor Bobby Cannavale will appear following Sunday's performance and actor Steven Weber will appear following Monday's performance.

Following a spate of successful post-show talkbacks, the best new Broadway play of the season* Reasons To Be Pretty has announced that actor Julianna Margulies will appear following this Sunday's performance in a talkback with the entire cast of the Tony Award-nominated Neil LaBute play, including Tony-nominated Marin Ireland and Thomas Sadoski .

Guerilla Theatre once again takes on the work of controversial playwright Neil LaBute with "Bash: Latter-Day Plays." The play opens Thursday, May 14.

We know, we know, ita TMs not all about looks - but Paul Rudd is a pretty photogenic visitor, isna TMt he? Photos by Bruce Glikas Reasons to be Pretty has had several reasons to smile lately, specifically Tony Award nominations for Best New Play , Best Leading Actor and Best Actress , all making their Broadway debut.

I'm truly happy that I get to run this interview now because it means something very important and something that makes me incredibly happy--that a film that I deeply love and first saw in October 2008 is finally making its way to a theater near you .

Before actor Paul Rudd joined Judd Apatow 's comedy click -- recently featured on the cover of Vanity Fair -- he was butt buddies with playwright and screenwriter Neil LaBute , starring in bash: the latter day plays , the debut of The Shape of Things and the subsequent film.

"Men and Women of Neil LaBute" opened Saturday night in the Alt Theatre, located in the Pierce-Arrow Building.

Neil LaBute's 'reasons to be pretty' is a rare bird: an original play on Broadway starring actors, not celebrities.

Audiences at Neil LaBute's smash hit, reasons to be pretty, now have an unprecedented way to interact with the best new Broadway play of the season.

The Dallas Theater Center announced the lineup on Tuesday for its 51st season and the first in its new home, the Wyly Theatre.

The O&M Company Marin Ireland and Thomas Sadoski in a scene from Neil LaBute's "reasons to be pretty," at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre.

The New York Times reports that a spokesman for the Broadway production of Neil LaBute 's " reasons to be pretty " revealed Sunday that the show's producers had beefed up the security detail at the Lyceum Theater following an incident at the Saturday evening performance.

The complicated, often explosive relationships between men and women are a source of eternal, often contrary fascination for Neil LaBute, and they have been superbly realized in "reasons to be pretty," his most compassionate, appealing work to date.