Coming this week: LaBute's ‘Reasons to Be Pretty'; Lisa Marie Presley

Sunday Skin deep Playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute is known for his bleak and brutal depictions of human foibles: misogyny, unfaithfulness, narcissism. So it is with his 2008 work Reasons to Be Pretty, in which a warehouse worker's offhand, unfavorable comparison of his live-in hairdresser girlfriend's looks to another woman's leads to an ugly argument that snowballs into a romantic and personal crisis that also engulfs his friends — a boorishly macho coworker and his lissome security-guard wife. But rather than the unrelenting cutting edge of cruelty that slices through most of LaBute's other work, this one offers the slightest chance at redemption. The question is: Will anyone take it? The Philadelphia Theatre Company production goes on at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Broad and Lombard Streets, and continues on a Tuesday-through -unday schedule to June 24. Tickets are $46 to $59. Call 215-985-0420.