Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
It looks like Southwark Playhouse has pulled off something of a casting coup, with Celia Imrie and Ella Smith rumoured to be teaming up for a new production of Sheridan's The Rivals early in the new year. The director attached is Jessica Swale, an...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
"It's almost surprising to think that people could still be shocked," director Barbara Damashek muses about reactions to Neil LaBute's "Fat Pig," which she has staged for Aurora Theatre. "It's not like Lenny Bruce. We're not shocked by language anymore. But...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
I first saw Luke Wilson's "better 3G experience" AT&T ad yesterday. My first thought was "why is he doing this?" Then I figured okay, the last thing he did that really connected was his nice-guy-brother role in The Family Stone, and Luke's last semi-popular Eloi movie was My Super Ex-Girlfriend and...well, also that Henry Poole Is Here didn't fly and TV ads pay pretty well....
Austinist (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Disasters and diseases suck. They kill people, they inspire (with the aid of fearmongers) exorbitant amounts of anxiety, and they provoke playwrights to scribe trite, mawkish, pontificating tripe. Generally. In certain cases, when their implications regarding human relations are looked at from a philosophical, conversational point of view, they've a better chance at being successful (see: Neil LaBute's...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Bewley’s Cafe Theatre, Dublin
Off The Rack (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Courtesy of Chanel For anyone who wondered why fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld picked British pop star Lily Allen to be the new face of Chanel’s Coco Cocoon collection, he cleared it up for Elle.com. The Kaiser explained that he “loves Lily’s humor, her cheekiness, her talent.” And the fact that she’s cute doesn’t [...]
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
AUTOBAHN **** TRON THEATRE, GLASGOW
Parabasis (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Mead Hunter has a post up in which he compiles the plays he'll never see again, no matter what. His list (all Roman comedies, Feydeau, Spring Awakening, Mother Courage, Butterflies Are Free and All My Sons) is pretty good. It...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
“Women. Nice ones, the most frigid of the race—it doesn’t matter in the end. Inside, they’re all the same: Meat and gristle and hatred, just simmering.” —Aaron Eckhart, In The Company Of Men [Note: Just a reminder, The New Cult Canon is not a spoiler-free zone. Major plot developments at the end of In The Company Of Men will be discussed in this article. Consider...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
IT IS something of a coup for Glasgow's Tron theatre to host the European premiere of Neil LaBute's Autobahn. The first time the play was performed, in 2004, it starre
Mercury News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Mercury News theater critic Karen D'Souza calls 'Fat Pig' a lacerating expose of sex, love and body image in America today.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Fat Pig: Drama. By Neil LaBute. Directed by Barbara Damashek. With Jud Williford, Liliane Klein, Alexandra Creighton and Peter Ruocco. Through Dec. 6. Aurora Theatre, 2081 Addison St., Berkeley. One hour, 45 minutes. $15-$55. (510) 843-...
The Theater Loop (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
American Theater Company says it will present a year-long festival that will premiere 30 short plays in honor of the theater company's 25th anniversary in 2010. Dubbed "The Silver Project," the event will feature 30 dramatic works by different writers,...
The Dish Rag (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Look for director Adam Rifkin’s new television series “Look,” based on his award-winning film of the same name, to be begin airing in the first quarter of 2010. "The first season is eight episodes," he says to one of his...
dark eye socket (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
I couldn’t describe the plot of this film if I tried, but I’ll hazard a guess: a couple of guys, Abe and Aaron (David Sullivan and director Carruth), are working on a machine in their garage that could possibly send objects, and hopefully people, back in time. It’s made out of refrigerator parts and various bits and bobs around the house, and makes a weird humming noise – its...
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hirakhan | 06/24/2009
Paltrow reprises her convincing British accent from films such as SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE and SLIDING DOORS, while Northam and Ehle lend gravity to their Victorian characters. However, it's Eckhart, a longtime LaBute collaborator,
gdffd | 02/20/2009
Lakeview Terrace is the seventh film directed by playwright Neil LaBute and it is, by a wide margin, the director's weakest effort to date. A domestic thriller built on brittle tension, the film brandishes racial conflict and flailing machismo before revealing that it has little insight into either topic. Click here to Watch Lakeview Terrace Movie Review
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