AP and TIME Magazine Top 10 of 2008
TIME Magazine - "Every once in a while he hits it on the nose, as in this astringent tale of the assorted entanglements of two working-class couples." (more)

AP - "Neil LaBute's latest examination of contentious relationships and their perceptions of physicality, particularly by a guy who wants to grow up." (more)

A Broadway Debut for Neil LaBute
The New York Times - "Neil LaBute, who has a long Off Broadway history, makes his uptown debut next season. His critically praised reasons to be pretty, an MCC Theater production currently at the Lucille Lortel Theater, will begin previews on Feb. 13 at a Broadway theater to be named." (more)

Features
New York Magazine - Interview with Piper Perabo (more)
Playbill.com - Interview with Terry Kinney (more)
Daily News - Profile of Alison Pill (more)
Backstage.com - Profile of Neil LaBute (more)

Reviews
The New York Times - "A firestorm of abuse and invective, hot enough to scald the hide off a thick-skinned man, blasts through the opening minutes of reasons to be pretty, the surprising new play by Neil LaBute that opened Monday night in a superbly acted production at the Lucille Lortel Theater. (more)

The New York Sun - "Neil LaBute has spent his career in the company of men, and generally these have not been nice men. The guys who have made their way out of Mr. LaBute's imagination, onto the page, then onto the stage or screen, have not tended to be the sort that another guy would want his sister or daughter to end up with." (more)

Associated Press - "There's nothing like starting a play in mid-volcanic eruption. Which is what Neil Labute does in reasons to be pretty, where a verbal slugfest is in progress between a pair of battling lovers, Greg (Thomas Sadoski) and Steph (Alison Pill). Prepare to be bruised - and fascinated." (more)

The New York Post - "Neil LaBute continues to explore our obsession with physical appearance and the way it wreaks havoc with personal relationships in reasons to be pretty, the comic drama that opened last night. But unlike the provocative play that preceded it - Fat Pig, The Shape of Things - this one cuts thrillingly deep." (more)

The NJ Star-Ledger - "Guys, ever wreck a nice relationship with a woman by making a stupid remark? So lights the fuse leading to a chain of personal explosions in reasons to be pretty, which ranks among Neil LaBute's sharpest studies in the contemporary war of the sexes." (more)