Broadway Reviews
New York Times - "A real love story.  Wonderfully acted with the freshest, most illuminating dialogue anywhere.  Thomas Sadoski rivets your attention.  Piper Perabo has blossomed affectively in her role."

TIME Magazine - "The best new broadway play of the season!"

AP - "Unquestionably, reasons to be pretty, is a highlight of the season.  A superb, satisfying play and Neil LaBute's most compassionate, appealing work to date. Marin Ireland is mesmerizing.  Steven Pasquale is terrific."

USA Today - "reasons to be pretty will make you feel, and think, more deeply.  No contemporary writer has more astutuely captured the brutality in everyday conversation and behavior. The actors thrive under Terry Kinney's vigorous but careful direction."

Bloomberg News - "Ferociously funny.  Under Terry Kinney's clockwork direction, the spirited cast goes instantly from fireworks to waterworks with utmost versatility and agility."

Daily News - "The bard of male bad behavior is back with some ugly truths, fierce observations, emotional fireworks and thunderbolts of comic insight."

Variety - "Brutally entertaining!  This taut, unexpectedly affecting play is one of LaBute's best."

NY1 - "Bravo!  reasons to be pretty is looking awfully good.  A richly layered work with a sharp focus on our obsession with beauty."

The Record - "Neil LaBute delivers the goods in a work that's lively and compulsively watchable, vividly directed by Terry Kinney."

Entertainment Weekly - "Neil LaBute's Broadway debut is laced with his trademark acidity, not to mention fine performances."

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."

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

Off-Broadway Reviews
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."

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."

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."

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."

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."