This Is How It Goes

"Seldom has [LaBute's] heart expressed itself as ambitiously or compellingly as it does in This Is How It Goes, the most frank, fearless look at race relations from a white dramatist since Rebecca Gilman's Spinning into Butter."—USA Today

"LaBute . . . continues to probe the fascinating dark side of individualism . . . [His] great gift is to live and to chronicle that murky area of not-knowing, which mankind spends much of its waking life denying."—John Lahr, The New Yorker

"Neil LaBute is the first dramatist since David Mamet and Sam Shepard—since Edward Albee, actually—to mix sympathy and savagery, pathos and power."—Donald Lyons, New York Post

"LaBute [is] our Amrican Aesop, a mad moral fabulist serving stiff tonic for our country's sin-sick souls."—John Istel, American Theatre

"Like a chiropractor of the soul, LaBute for realignment, listening for a crack."—John Istel, Elle