LaBute New Theater Festival

It sometimes seems as though no festival of short plays in New York can legally take place without at least one piece by spite master Neil LaBute, and now he has a fest with his name on it: St. Louis Actors' Studio's annual LaBute New Theater Festival. Its fourth New York sampler is entirely devoted to provocative-sounding new one-acts by the playwright himself: the world premieres of Unlikely Japan and Great Negro Works of Art and the NYC premiere of The Fourth Reich.