the New York Times coverage of REASONS....

3 things of interest:

THE FIRST is the New York Times review of the show, which is very positive. I thought this paragraph was interesting, as we touched on this in our discussion in class:

It’s telling that Kent, the play’s most vulgar character, is the one who speaks most easily, whipping out clichés and malapropisms as if they were pistols. The others wrestle awkwardly with language, and “reasons” is filled with instances of misinterpreted words and of people groping for mots justes that never arrive.

Read the full review here: http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/theater/reviews/03reas.html?partner=rss&emc=rss


THE SECOND is the profile in the New York Times Magazine that I read from in class. That's here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29LaBute-t.html


THE THIRD I find the MOST interesting. It's a presentation called The Sell: ‘Reasons to Be Pretty.’

Drew Hodges, the CEO of SpotCo, a Broadway advertising agency, narrates a slideshow of some of the rejected poster art for "reasons to be pretty" and talks about how they came up with the concept for the final ads. It involves putting out an ad on CraigsList and asking over 250 people to come in and tell their own stories about their bodies AND photographing them.

Check it out here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/02/22/theater/20090222_REASONS_INTERACTIVE.html