Fear the Night review – Neil LaBute on losing streak with atrocious home invasion thriller
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The best theatre to stream this month: Rufus Norris’s barmy take on Sleeping Beauty, Ian McKellen unmasked and more
June 2023
The week in theatre: Aspects of Love; Rose; The Shape of Things – review
A superb cast, including opera star Danielle de Niese, elevates Andrew Lloyd Webber’s plodding 80s musical; Maureen Lipman gives a one-woman masterclass; and Neil LaBute’s romcom gets a sharp, funny revival
May 2023
The Shape of Things review – seductive sociopaths show cruel intent
The tension is raised in Neil LaBute’s dark comedy as entitled Evelyn sets about remoulding unworldly Adam from geek to good-looking boyfriend
October 2022
House of Darkness review – Neil LaBute’s creepy-mansion revenge horror goes nowhere
LaBute’s quarter-baked script tries but fails to satirise male attitudes, letting down his actors Justin Long and Kate Bosworth
December 2017
'I challenge them to leave but force them to stay': playwrights on their audiences
Eight dramatists, including Lucy Prebble, Neil LaBute and Chris Goode, discuss how much they think about the people who will come and watch their work
January 2017
Top Trumps review – 12 playwrights get to grips with new president
Neil LaBute and Caryl Churchill contribute to an evening of plays that make every effort to empathise with Trump voters
September 2016
All The Ways to Say I Love You review – a sexual confession pulls its punches
MCC Theater, New York Judith Light elevates Neil Labute’s mildly sensational material about a transgressive relationship into a reasonably compelling character study
March 2016
Reasons to Be Happy review – Neil LaBute loses his bite
The American playwright edges away from his usual bilious comic antagonism with this drama about romantic crises
October 2015
Observer New Review Q&A
Neil LaBute: ‘I’m a relatively nice person…’
The American dramatist on three-minute plays, meeting Pinter and the boyish looks of Aaron Eckhart
May 2015
The Way We Get By review – Neil LaBute's inarticulate characters irritate
Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski star in a morning-after drama where they talk endlessly without saying anything of substance
April 2015
Dirty Weekend review – Neil LaBute's odd couple fail to convince
Alice Eve and Matthew Broderick raise a few laughs, but never shake the artifice in this secrets-and-lies comedy about colleagues stuck in Albuquerque
January 2015
Neil LaBute among writers tackling freedom of expression in new collection
Short-play series Walking the Tightrope, opening in London this month, will also feature works by Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill and April De Angelis
September 2014
Autobahn review – Neil LaBute's playlet cycle gets under your skin
This evening of unrelated scenes, all staged in the front seat of a car, is watchable though a little samey and stop-start, writes Lyn Gardner
May 2014
Neil LaBute: 'Better for me not to be a Mormon than a bad Mormon'
His first work Bash got him excluded from the Mormon church. Now, as its three plays are revived in London with a modified script, Neil LaBute talks religion and R-rated movies
March 2014
Good People; Versailles; Orlando – review
Imelda Staunton is whip-sharp in a great new US play about class, writes Susannah Clapp
November 2013
Theatre Uncut; Strangers on a Train – review
Theatre Uncut – review
May 2012
Mark Lawson's theatre studies
Is it curtains for the theatre curtain?
Mark Lawson
Mark Lawson: Audiences know the action kicks off on stage when the curtain goes up – so why are so many directors dispensing with the idea?
November 2011
Reasons to Be Pretty; Juno and the Paycock; The Lion in Winter – review
A terrific cast brings Neil LaBute's unflinching trilogy to a powerful close, writes Susannah Clapp
