Broadway's hottest date night comes to the Playhouse. At the end of a long day of auditions, a playwright is convinced he’ll never find the right actress to play the heroine in his adaptation of a ...

Vermont Stage presents Venus in Fur, playing April 26 through May 14 at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center in Burlington. A director adapts an 1870 German erotica novel, an actress gives the ...

The sexual term “masochism” was coined in 1886 by an Austrian psychiatrist in response to the sexually charged works of Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895), ...

Thomas, a beleaguered playwright/director, is desperate to find an actress to play Vanda, the female lead in his adaptation of the classic sadomasochistic tale Venus in Fur. Into his empty audition ...

For his 2010 play Venus in Fur, David Ives wraps a central theme of psychosexual power dynamics in a crazy quilt of theatrical genres to produce a head-spinning comedy. If Ives is almost recklessly ...

Thomas (Jay Stratton), a playwright-director alone in a drab rehearsal hall, vents his frustrations into the phone. There are no actresses capable of starring in his play, he complains, no one with ...

During a darkly humorous and powerful moment in David Ives' Venus in Fur, Vanda adds insult to injury, and it's not part of the degradation Thomas romanticizes. While reading a scene from a play ...

Griffin and Holley turn us on in Venus in Fur Credit: Siggi Ragnar Kacey Griffin, as the protagonist of David Ives’ terrific play Venus in Fur, gives the best performance I’ve seen in San Antonio in ...

With “Venus in Fur,” veteran filmmaker Roman Polanski orchestrates an intriguing adaptation the Tony Award-winning play by David Ives. Opening with deftly applied misdirection, the film proceeds to ...