Paul Rudd Hosts Pretty Talkback May 12

By Andrew Gans
12 May 2009

Stage and screen star Paul Rudd will host a talkback session following the May 12 7 PM performance of Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Pretty at the Lyceum Theatre.

The talkback will feature the entire cast of the new play, including 2009 Tony nominees Marin Ireland and Thomas Sadoski. The conversation is offered free of charge to anyone purchasing a ticket to that performance.

Rudd has appeared in LaBute's bash: latter day plays and the original production and subsequent film of The Shape of Things.

Ireland, Steven Pasquale, Piper Perabo and Sadoski comprise the four-person cast. The play, according to the producers, "confronts America's obsession with physical beauty headlong. In Neil LaBute's new play, Greg's (Sadoski) tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his off-handed remarks about a female co-worker's pretty face (and his girlfriend's lack thereof) get back to said girlfriend (Ireland). But that's just the beginning."

Terry Kinney directs.

The Lyceum Theatre is located in Manhattan at 149 West 45th Street. Tickets are available by visiting www.telecharge.com or by calling (212) 239-6200.