How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? Such are the painful questions explored by Neil Labute in "The Shape of Things". A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crum[...]
Greg is overheard admitting that his girlfriend Steph is no beauty, but that he wouldn't change her for the world. She is devastated; he can't see what he's done wrong. Meanwhile, Greg's friend Kent alternates between boasting about how gorgeous his wife Carly is and chasing after a hot new colleagu[...]
'LaBute takes us to shadowy places we don't like to talk about, sometimes even to think about.' NewsdayObsession with surface and secrets runs through this second collection of Neil LaBute's work. The Shape of Things peels back the skin of modern-day relationships to ask how far someone might change[...]
Neil LaBute is arguably the most challenging, provocative, and acclaimed playwright of his generation. "Lovely Head and Other Plays" brings together his most masterful and affecting recent shorter works.
The title play, which had its American premiere at La MaMa in 2012, rivetingly explores the[...]
This thrilling, essentialMiss Julie, which had its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in 2013 with Lily Rabe as Julie, Logan Marshall-Green as John, and Laura Heisler as Kristine, superbly embodies both the passionate spirit of the original and the unflinching style of Neil LaBute.[...]