Why Men Are Clueless

Tepid addition to the "goofy guys learn a lesson" rom-com archives

"...women need to know about men, which plays like Neil LaBute scripting an episode of Friends. That edge between..."

Jan. 5, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Tale of a Whale: Shanon Weaver on Playing and Watching Charlie

Austin artist Shanon Weaver shares his experience playing Charlie and watching Brendan Fraser play the same part in The Whale

"...(one of which it lost to a production of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, ironically), and our "most successful" production..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Shanon Weaver

House of Darkness

Neil LaBute takes a smart bite out of the vampire drama

"...Directed by: Neil LaBute. Starring: Justin Long, Kate Bosworth, Gia Crovatin and..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Gigi & Nate

Saccharine story of a man and his assistance monkey

"...Hamm, who is better known for grittier material like Neil LaBute's Full Circle, and one could only wish there..."

Sept. 2, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Now Streaming in Austin: "Butterflies"

Director Ken Brisbois on fetishes and power

"...well as playwrights like Sam Shepard, Sarah Kane, and Neil LaBute. Playwrights who just come out swinging. "Butterflies" started..."

July 29, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films of 2017 You Haven't Seen Yet

From zombie musicals to political scandals, a bumper year

"...Cory Finley channels the same sociological razor as prime Neil LaBute, but with the spoiled offspring of the bourgeoisie..."

Jan. 1, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Examining the Sins and Virtues of Hypermasculine Theatre

When is violence in theatre too much?

"...of Inishmore, The Pillowman), Tracy Letts (Killer Joe, Bug), Neil LaBute (Bash: Latter-Day Plays, Fat Pig), and Jez Butterworth..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Arts Feature by Shanon Weaver

Austin Playhouse's The Norwegians

C. Denby Swanson's comedy with nice hit men is a blast of cool fun, with a hint of danger just below the ice

"...Her prose combines Will Eno's love of language and Neil LaBute's accessibility to commonplace savagery simultaneously. Most inspiring is..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

AFF Lauds Matthew Weiner

‘Mad Men’ creator to receive Outstanding Television Writer Award

"...the Black List), Ashley Miller (X-Men: First Class co-writer), Neil LaBute (Some Girls writer/director), Christopher Cantwell (Halt & Catch..."

June 3, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Bethany out of Saturn?

Theatre En Bloc's new show explores a world of economic desperation.

"...complicated the boards, it was with Derek Kolluri directing Neil LaBute's Fat Pig...."

May 21, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Brenner's Top 5 Interviews of 2013

Because these people said some, we mean, surprising stuff.

"...1. Neil deGrasse Tyson – astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium,..."

Dec. 17, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fat Pig

Neil LaBute's play about body-size and social douchebaggery gets a sharp production from Theatre en Bloc

"...In that context, consider the plot of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, onstage now from Theatre en Bloc...."

Oct. 18, 2013 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Two Actresses, Fat and Thin

Staging Neil LaBute's 'Fat Pig' is a heavy proposition

"...of Helen in the Theatre En Bloc production of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, opening this weekend at the Off..."

Oct. 2, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

New in Print

Three recent releases go behind the scenes for Hollywood reads

"...and underloved movies via Q&As with filmmakers/proselytizers, such as Neil LaBute (cheering Blume in Love), Richard Linklater (Some Came..."

July 12, 2013 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The AggreGAYtor: March 20

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...an Arizonan must be like being trapped in a Neil LaBute film...."

March 20, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

What Goes Around ...

With 'Some Girl(s)', Neil LaBute circles back from stage to screen

"...heart of Some Girl(s), the new film based on Neil LaBute's 2005 play in which a writer on the..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Keep Calm and Party On

Everything you need to know to navigate SXSW Film

"...Thursday, featuring interviews with boldface names like Joss Whedon, Neil Labute, and Kathleen Hanna, homegrown talent like Yen Tan..."

March 4, 2013 Screens Post

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...Hamilton. Party Girl director Daisy von Scherler Mayer brings Neil LaBute play Some Girl(s) to screen with Adam Brody,..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Bastion Standard Time

Austin theatre's 'enfant terrible' swapped his poison pen for a Poison Apple and still gets people talking

"...directed a segment of the Vestige Group's production of Neil LaBute's Bash, and the following year, he recruited performer/director..."

July 13, 2012 Arts Feature by Dan Solomon

Austin Shorts at Sundance

David Lowery and the Zellner Bros. to do the 'Dance

"...peek at the mysteries of nature."sexting" (Director and Screenwriter: Neil LaBute) – People are not who they seem when..."

Dec. 6, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Death at a Funeral

A remake of a 3-year-old British comedy, Death at a Funeral transfers its farce from a predominantly white cast to predominantly black.

"...Directed by: Neil LaBute. Starring: Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Tracy Morgan, Zoe..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Lakeview Terrace

By-the-book domestic thriller about the consequences of moving into a neighborhood lorded over by a rules-happy sociopath with a gun and a badge.

"...Directed by: Neil LaBute. Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington,..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Muses II: Memories of a House: Home Theatre

A special house in Travis Heights becomes even more special as the setting for Vestige Group's collection of playlets

"..."Helen Roberts had come to see our production of Neil Labute's Fat Pig," says Susie Gidseg, who serves as..."

June 13, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

The Horror … the Horror …

Make it stop!

"...every time she steps into one of these real-life Neil LaBute plays. "Your words are much different, senator." ARRGH!..."

Feb. 26, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The Spirit of the Beehive

"They felt the film was ... simply unendurable. That no one would go see it."

"...The Wicker Man 2-Disc Set (Anchor Bay, $19.98): Banish Neil LaBute's tepid remake from your mind while scaring the..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Wicker Man

Notorious director Neil LaBute's well-intentioned but inadvertently silly film starring Nicolas Cage replaces the vague, sinister paganism of the original with a creepy infusion of earth-mother estrogen gone haywire.

"...Directed by: Neil LaBute. Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fat Pig

To present an in-your-face play about weight as your first show requires real intestinal fortitude, so consider the Vestige Group, making its debut with Neil LaBute's 'Fat Pig,' a gutsy bunch

"...Neil LaBute is at it again. As has become clear..."

June 30, 2006 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

The Shape of Things

Neil LaBute's 'The Shape of Things,' staged by a chick and a dude productions, destroys the kind of cutesy relationships usually reserved for melodramatic chick flicks

"...not what you'd expect from the filmmaker and playwright Neil LaBute, who has the topic of cruelty cornered the..."

March 3, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Of Cactuses, Crickets, and Cars

Cataloguing the diverse wonders of FronteraFest Long Fringe 2006

Jan. 27, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked

The 1993 film by writer and director Mike Leigh, newly released by Criterion, is a small masterpiece of blighted English negativity: like little body with a corrosive heart

"...set's second disc, an interview with playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men), no stranger to..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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