Pill, Perabo, Schreiber & Sadoski Set for Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Pretty
Alison Pill, Piper Perabo, Pablo Schreiber and Thomas Sadoski will star in the world premiere of Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Pretty at MCC Theater. Performances begin at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on May 14, with opening night on June 2. The limited off-Broadway engagement will continue through July 5, directed by Terry Kinney.
In Reasons to be Pretty, the tight-knit social circle of Greg Sadoski is thrown into turmoil when his offhanded remarks about a female co-worker's pretty face and his girlfriend's lack thereof get back to said girlfriend Pill. But that's just the beginning. Greg's best buddy Kent Schreiber, and Kent's wife, Carly Perabo, 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?
Perabo's films include The Prestige, Coyote Ugly, Because I Said So, First Snow, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Imagine Me and You, White Boyz and the forthcoming The Heaven Project and South of the Border.
Schreiber received a Tony Award nomination for Awake and Sing! and appeared off-Broadway in Dying City, Mr. Marmalade, Manuscript, Sin: A Cardinal Deposed, Blood Orange and Julius Caesar. On film, he appeared in the forthcoming Vicky Cristina Barcelona directed by Woody Allen and Nights in Rodanthe directed by George Wolfe.
Sadoski has appeared on Broadway in Reckless and off-Broadway in This Is Our Youth, Gemini, All This Intimacy, Stay, Where We're Born, The Joke, The Mistakes Madeline Made, Jump/Cut, The General From America and Thunderbird.
Reasons to be Pretty marks the sixth collaboration between MCC Theater and LaBute, who serves as MCC's Resident Playwright. This new work caps a trilogy of plays that began with The Shape of Things and Fat Pig which MCC also premiered.
