The Shape of Things News

Check out the local entertainment scene -- it's ON! Over the next month in Metro Moncton, there are so many shows to see, that it will be a challenge to choose between them.

H ow far would you go for love? How far for art? Neil LaBute poses these questions in his play "The Shape of Things," being brought to the Tulsa stage by the Odeum Theatre Company.

THE Shape of Things is another of Neil LaBute's clever storytelling traps. Debuting as a play in 2001 and turned into a film directed by LaBute himself in 2003, it presents itself as the simplest of boy-meets-girl romantic comedy setups.

Fat Pig: Drama. By Neil LaBute. Directed by Barbara Damashek. With Jud Williford, Liliane Klein, Alexandra Creighton and Peter Ruocco.

Love doesn't quite conquer all in "Fat Pig." From "Bash" to "In the Company of Men," Neil LaBute has become the bard of men behaving badly.

What: 'Fat Pig' When: Thursday, Nov. 5 through Sunday, Nov. 8 Where: Lake Dillon Theater, 176 Lake Dillon Drive, Dillon Tickets: $18, available by calling 513-9386 or online at www.lakedillonfoundation. Lake Dillon Theater Company opens Neil LaBute's "Fat Pig" at the Lake Dillon Theater Thursday.

Neil LaBute likes exploring private spaces. Especially, it seems, if the controversial American playwright, screenwriter and director can show off what goes on in those spaces in public.

Firehouse Theatre Project will present Neil LaBute 's THIS IS HOW IT GOES from October 29th to November 21st.

There's chubby. There's pleasingly plump. There's big-boned. There's more-of-you-to-love. And then there's, er, well ... Fat is the other F-word. And, in its way, it's as strident, as provocative, as shocking.

New Stage Theatre's alternative Unframed Series opens with The Shape of Things, an intense drama by Neil LaBute about relationships, manipulation, art and love.

Tickets are now available for Ignition Theatrea s explosive fifth season. A Governor General Award-winning play, a world premiere, a holiday classic, and a musical are all part of the professional theatre companya s fifth anniversary line-up. The season opener is The Drawer Boy, by Canadian playwright Michael Healey, which runs Oct.

Themes of creation and manipulation set the stage for relationship troubles in Neil LaBute's 2001 play, "The Shape of Things," which opened Friday night at the Prism Theatre Company.

The Primary Stages School of Theater has announced a newly created Master Class Series that was created to provide students the chance to gain rare insight and experience from some of the finest working professionals in the theater.

LILY ALLEN is taking a break from her pop career to test out her acting skills in London's West End.

Films such as The Mummy and its sequel, The Mummy Returns , which collectively have grossed close to US$850 million, have cemented Rachel Weisz's status as a bankable A-list player.

Rachel Weisz is to introduce her partner Darren Aronofsky to London's cultural scene during her first stage appearance in her home city since they met.

A US Supreme Court judge lands the highest-ranking post in the war against drugs, but little does he know that his former straight-A daughter has become a junky who spends her afternoons getting high with her classmates.

Seduction is an art in Neil LaBute's "The Shape of Things," but art is also a form of seduction disguising itself as reality when it is purely fanciful.

Say what you will about Neil LaBute's often nasty battles between the sexes, but the person who influenced him most was .

Critics have dubbed him a misanthrope - a person who hates humankind. That's a rather daunting title to have in the back of one's head when getting ready to call playwright, screenwriter and director Neil LaBute, nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play for "Reasons to Be Pretty." A graduate of Brigham Young University, LaBute has ruffled more than ...