Don't miss it! In the other, "Venus in Fur" by David Ives now at None Too Fragile theater, a young woman named Vanda is auditioning for the title role in an eponymous play-within-the-play that the ...

Carson Wright, back, and Catherine D. DuBord in Theatre Three’s ‘Venus in Fur.’ (Photos by Jeffrey Schmidt) I’m not gonna lie. I’ve been reluctant to write this review about Theatre ...

Loud, crackling thunderclaps vibrate through the theater as the curtain rises on the Huntington Theatre Company s production of Venus in Fur. The fearsome, unsettling thunder, delivered with little ...

Playwright Thomas (Lawrence Blake H) has adapted German author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's book Venus in Furs into a play and has been auditioning actresses all day. Once Thomas is ready to go ...

Venus in Fur is obviously 50% text, 50% sex. What’s more, the intimate autobiographical parallels are overpoweringly clear. That the lead female role – Emmanuelle Seigner – is played by Madame ...

Critics have praised the director's formal mastery whilst asking where to draw the line between autobiography and irony. Venus in Fur's protagonist is a playwright-director frustrated in his search ...

The play’s the thing in the erotic comedy/drama Venus in Fur, which entirely takes place during an unorthodox audition one rainy evening in a Parisian theatre where a musical version of the ...

David Ives' "Venus in Fur" is a thought-provoking play that explores themes of power, desire, and gender roles. Here are a few reasons why someone might want to see it: Compelling Story ...

Or then again, maybe not—he was an intellectually cagey guy. In 1870 he published Venus in Furs, a novel of obsession—apparently based on some of his own—about a Mittel-European nobleman ...

When Nina Arianda as a frazzled actor bursts in on Wes Bentley as a tired director-playwright at the end of a long day of auditions, David Ives' "Venus in Fur" seems to be headed in a predictable ...

Nina Arianda did just that in February 2010 in Classic Stage Company's production of David Ives' "Venus in Fur" when she burst into John Lee Beatty's dingy rehearsal-room set as Vanda, the ...