MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) announced that Logan Marshall-Green and Piper Perabo (current star of MCC’s production of reasons to be pretty) will join the cast of tonight’s special reading of Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street).

These two readings of plays by Neil LaBute exploring America’s obsession with physical beauty highlights the current LaBute play Off-Broadway. MCC’s current production of LaBute’s bristling new comic drama reasons to be pretty puts a final, ferocious cap on a trilogy of plays that began with The Shape of Things and Fat Pig (which MCC also premiered). The series brings together many of the original artists from the first two plays in the trilogy in support of the critically-acclaimed reasons to be pretty, which marks the sixth collaboration between MCC Theater and LaBute, MCC’s Playwright-in-Residence.

Mr. Marshall-Green and Ms. Perabo complete a cast that includes Anna Camp (The Country Girl, The Scene) and Austin Lysy (Hitch, A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Acclaimed director Carolyn Cantor, who last worked with Neil LaBute on MCC Theater’s 2007 production of In a Dark Dark House, will direct. Logan Marshall-Green replaces Paul Rudd who, due to a last-minute schedule change, will not be available to perform in the reading.

This special one-night-only reading of The Shape of Things is performed tonight, Monday, June 23 at 7:00 p.m. at the Lortel, where reasons to be pretty is currently playing to sold-out audiences. As previously announced, reasons to be pretty will transfer to Broadway later this season.

A limited number of tickets for The Shape of Things are still available and can be purchased at the Lucille Lortel box office, by visiting www.mcctheater.org or through www.ticketcentral.com or by calling (212) 279-4200.

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