Few writers can match Neil LaBute's ability to muscle the hateful sides of human nature into full relief.
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Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): LaBute Theater Festival
Do women control men and get them to "do" things beyond a man's power to say no to them?
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): LaBute New Theater Festival at 59E59
The six short plays comprising the LaBute New Theater Festival might have been collectively titled 'Love and Murder,' two themes clearly on the playwrights' minds.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Summer Shorts’
From beginning to end the Summer Shorts Program Series A is awesome on many levels. The last play will resonates with drama and power.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Power Plays’ – Short Plays by Neil LaBute, John Guare, David Henry Hwang, Bekah Brunstetter, and Bruce Graham
This collection of short plays by five playwrights offers something of a master class in the many styles of contemporary writing for the stage.
Read More »Theater Review (LA): ‘Fat Pig’ by Neil LaBute
LaBute's examination of relationships and body image receives a solid revival at the Hudson Mainstage Theater in Hollywood.
Read More »Book Review: The Best American Short Plays 2009-2010, Edited by Barbara Parisi
An anthology of shorter work by American playwrights begs the question - is it all really the best?
Read More »Book Review: The Best American Short Plays, 2008-2009, Edited by Barbara Parisi
Sixteen of the years best one-act plays here include tour de force monologues and more fully-realized traditional scenes.
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