LaBute's 'Reasons To Be Pretty' Set to Move to Broadway

Variety is reporting that Neil LaBute's REASONS TO BE PRETTY will transfer to Broadway. REASONS TO BE PRETTY is currently playing Off Broadway in a production produced by MCC Theater. The  Off Broadway cast includes Piper Perabo, Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski and Pablo Schreiber. All will reprise their roles on Broadway. The Broadway transfer is set to open in February. This will mark LaBute's Broadway debut. 

reasons to be pretty marks the sixth collaboration between MCC Theater and LaBute, who is MCC's Resident Playwright.  This new work puts a final, ferocious cap on a trilogy of plays that began with The Shape of Things and Fat Pig (which MCC also premiered).  Performances of the four-character play began at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street) on May 14 and will continue through July 5.

"America's obsession with physical beauty is confronted headlong in this brutal and exhilarating new play.  In reasons to be pretty, Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhanded remarks about a female coworker's pretty face (and his girlfriend's lack thereof) get back to said girlfriend.  But that's just the beginning.  Greg's best buddy Kent, and Kent's wife Carly also enter into the picture and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated.  As their relationship crumbles, their friends are pulled into the fray and all are forced to confront a sea of deceit, infidelity and betrayed trust in their journey to answer that oh-so-American question: How much is pretty worth?" describe press notes

Story centers on a man (Sadoski) whose casual comment about a co-worker's attractiveness wreaks havoc in his personal life.

LaBute's other plays include "The Shape of Things," "Fat Pig" and "Bash: Latter-Day Plays." LaBute is resident playwright at MCC, which has staged six of his plays. The playwright considers "Reasons" to be the final seg in a thematically linked trilogy that also includes "Shape of Things" and "Fat Pig"

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