Neil LaBute News

WaterTower Theatre Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin today announced casting details for Shooting Star which will be performed on the Main Stage May 27 - June 26, 2011.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Profiles Theatre will presents the Chicago premiere of A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE. The show, which will open in September, will be directed by Rick Snyder. Also a part of Profiles' 2011-12 season are Neil LaBute's THE BREAK OF NOON, BACHELORETTE, and ASSISTED LIVING.

Profiles Theatre announces the extension of reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute, directed by Steppenwolf ensemble member Rick Snyder. Due to box office demand, the production will now close on April 10.

Multi-award winning company Rogue Machine adds another inimitable WORLD PREMIERE production to their season.

From April 22-30, the Independent Drama Society completes its 2010-2011 season, a season of love and loathing, with EURYDICE by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Artistic Director Lindsay Eagle (The Shape of Things).

Two time Emmy nominee Colleen Zenk who played Barabara Ryan on As The World Turns for 32 years is readying to premiere her new one-woman cabaret show aptly titled COLLEEN ZENK: LIVE! The show will debut on Friday April 8th at Bob Egan's New Hope - one of the country's leading cabaret showrooms.

Europe's Most Controversial Play Makes U.S. Premiere La MaMa Presents a Ronald Rand Production "WE COULDN'T CALL IT WHAT WE WANTED TO CALL IT, SO WE CALLED IT HOLY CRAP !!" ** starring Tony Award nominee Stephen Mo Hanan ** April 28 - May 15 at La MaMa

According to The Hollywood Reporter, 'The Office' workers will be joined by a slew of guest stars for their season finale.

Alliance Repertory Theatre Co. Presents Neil LaBute's Tony Nominated Best Play "reasons to be pretty"

Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company presents An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf By Michael Hollinger

TheatreSquared (T2) announced today the cast and creative team for Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Pretty, a modern-day love story which received its Broadway premiere in 2009 and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best New Play.

Producers Joan Stein and Stuart Ross announced today that STANDING ON CEREMONY: THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS returns by popular demand to Largo at the Coronet (366 N. La Cienega Blvd.) in West Hollywood.

Multi-award winning company Rogue Machine adds another inimitable WORLD PREMIERE production to their season.

Multi-award winning company Rogue Machine adds another inimitable WORLD PREMIERE production to their season.

According to the Hollywood Reporter stage veteran Ed Harris will join Julianne Moore in the cast of HBO's GAME PLAN film. The duo will play 2008 presidential runningmates John McCain and Sarah Palin.

The Mercy Seat - Vs. Theatre Company presents the Los Angeles premiere of Neil LaBute's scathing, trenchant and caustically funny examination of opportunism in the face of tragedy. Set on September 12, 2001, less than twenty-four hours after terrorists brought down the World Trade Center, The Mercy Seat introduces us to lovers Ben and Abby. Ben was supposed to have been working in the Twin Towers on that fateful day; but was playing hooky with Abby, his mistress and boss. Suddenly the two see a new possibility for their future that didn't exist just a day earlier. Will Ben let his family know he's alive?

Multi-award winning company Rogue Machine adds another inimitable WORLD PREMIERE production to their season.

TheatreSquared announced today two new educational offerings for students and adults.

The first preview of Tony Kushner's THE INTELLIGENT HOMOSEXUAL'S GUIDE TO CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM WITH A KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES has been postponed a day to provide the cast and crew with an additional dress rehearsal. The production will now begin performances on Wednesday, March 23 at The Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street). The production is presented by The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes) and Signature Theatre Company (Founding Artistic Director James Houghton; Executive Director Erika Mallin) in association with the Guthrie Theater (Joe Dowling, Director). Michael Greif, who directed the world premiere at the Guthrie in April 2009, directs the New York premiere, which opens on Thursday, May 5 and runs through June 12.

The Mercy Seat - Vs. Theatre Company presents the Los Angeles premiere of Neil LaBute's scathing, trenchant and caustically funny examination of opportunism in the face of tragedy. Set on September 12, 2001, less than twenty-four hours after terrorists brought down the World Trade Center, The Mercy Seat introduces us to lovers Ben and Abby.