Neil LaBute

Lakeview Terrace
Running time 110 minutes
Written by David Loughery and Howard Korder
Directed by Neil LaBute
Starring Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson

Neil LaBute’s Lakeview Terrace, from a screenplay by David Loughery and Howard Korder, based on the story by Mr. Loughery, explores our interracial malaise at a time when we are facing the ultimate test of our true feelings on the tangled issues involved. Not that Lakeview Terrace is predominantly concerned with how whites perceive blacks. For once, the shoe is on the other foot when a mixed-race couple, Patrick Wilson’s grocery-store-chain consultant, Chris Mattson, and his African-American wife, Kerry Washington’s Lisa, move into a secluded Southern California community right next door to Samuel Jackson’s widowed LAPD officer, Abel Turner, who has two small children.  read more »

Neil LaBute will make his long overdue Broadway debut with Reasons to Be Pretty, a play starring the glorious Alison Pill, Piper Perabo, Thomas Sadoski and Pablo Schreiber. All the actors, currently performing at the Off Broadway Lucille Lortel Theater, will return for the move to the Rialto next year, with performances slated to begin on Feb. 13, 2009 according to Variety.  read more »

Alison Pill, the gal we dubbed "glorious" last October, has been cast in Neil LaBute's new play reasons to be pretty, set for a June 2 opening night at the MCC Theater. According to The Observer's Lizzy Ratner, Ms. Pill has played "a scrappy girl terrorist in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore—a play that marked her Broadway debut and earned her a Tony nomination for featured actress. She has played the tormented victim of a Lolita-style love affair in Blackbird, an off-Broadway play for which she won all kinds of critical praise and, yes, more nominations (that time from the Outer Critics Circle and Drama League). She has played broken girlfriends and clinically depressed teens and, in Mauritius, a complicated young woman who also happen[ed] to be her first starring Broadway role."  read more »