"Venus in Fur" is not an easy play to watch. David Ives' Tony Award-nominated play, which opened Thursday at Birmingham Festival Theatre, is not only a play within a play. It's a book within a ...

The spring return of Venus in Fur is a limited commercial engagement running through June 17. Here's how producers characterize Venus in Fur: "Vanda (Arianda) is a preternaturally talented young ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — It could be easy to dismiss David Ives’s “Venus in Fur,” loosely inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s 1870 erotic novella “Venus in Furs,” as salacious smut.

Joan Marcus There’s a divan in “Venus in Fur,” and it’s pretty versatile. At first it’s a potential casting couch — after all, the play takes place during an audition in which an ...

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 ...

Depending on your taste for kink, “Venus in Fur,” David Ives’ twisty tale about a casting session between a smug playwright and an earthy actress trying out for the role of a well-born 19th ...

But talk about timing, let’s consider another of his works, “Venus in Fur,” which opened last week at the Hampton Theatre Company. Ives puts the balance of power between men and women under ...