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LaBute's 'reasons to be pretty'

For years, Neil LaBute has been turning out twisty, vicious, uncompromising serious-comedies that have been shocking and delighting audiences Off-Broadway and in London. Well, the dark star of theater morality is finally on Broadway. But "reasons to be pretty," which opened last night at the Lyceum, is almost shockingly slight and too eager for redemption to be provocative.

Oh, the four 20-something...

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