What does it mean to be pretty? Do you really need someone to validate your appearance?
Neil LaBute tackles our obsession with physical beauty head-on in a work nominated for multiple Tony and Drama Desk Awards. This production, directed by the playwright, includes original Broadway cast member Thomas Sadoski, whose acclaimed performance also earned a Tony nomination.
An LA Theatre Works full-cast production featuring Jenna Fischer, Thomas Sadoski, Gia Crovatin, and Josh Stamberg. Written and directed by Neil LaBute. Recorded by LA Theatre Works before a live audience. This audio edition includes a backstage conversation with Neil LaBute and the cast.
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“Mr. LaBute is writing some of the freshest and most illuminating American dialogue to be heard anywhere these days.”
— New York Times
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Neil LaBute is arguably the most challenging, provocative, and acclaimed playwright of his generation. In works like bash, The Shape of Things, Fat Pig, and reasons to be pretty, he superbly engages with such themes as men and women, sex and power, deception and manipulation, with the humane sensibility of an artist who, as John Lahr wrote in The New Yorker, “does not trivialize darkness but treats it with proper awe.”