“Pretty Takes Practice,” by Charla Muller. Berkley Books, NY. 2014. 259 pp. $16. Charla Muller wrote a book titled “365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy.” It attracted quite a bit of attention. She was ...

As its title suggests, "Reasons to Be Pretty" deals to some extent with a culture in thrall to physical beauty. However, the real subject of this taut, unexpectedly affecting drama is a man forced to ...

Two couples face off and fall out in Neil LaBute's Tony-nominated play about the importance we place on physical beauty By Myron Meisel Reasons To Be Pretty Still - H 2014 More in sorrow than in anger ...

Sometimes it feels like we are investing too much time and effort into trying to be beautiful. After all, we live in a beauty-obsessed world and the beauty business is a multi-billion dollar industry.

Reasons to be Pretty Happy in the final play of MCC Playwright-in- Residence Neil LaBute's acclaimed 'Reasons' trilogy with also includes Reasons to be Happy and Reasons to be Pretty, the latter of ...

It takes nothing away from the genius of Alison Bechdel to note that a version of her famous Bechdel test was proposed in the nineteen-seventies by Delphine Seyrig, the great French actress and ...

Greg's 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. But that’s ...