I recently came across a friend's social media post lamenting the decline of his local theater scene on the east coast. Though I felt the urge to respond by crowing about the thriving scene in my area ...
Vanda Jordan/Vanda von Dunayev (20s-40s) – Vanda is an enigma; we are never quite sure who she is. Initially she comes across as a poor fit for the grind of Broadway; she’s clumsy in her introduction, ...
Carson Wright portrays a playwright named Thomas who finds himself trapped at an audition by Catherine DuBord's actress Vanda in Theatre Three's production of "Venus in Fur," David Ives' 2010 ...
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 ...
Nina Arianda returns to play Vanda, again under the direction of Walter Bobbie. Emmy Award nominee Hugh Dancy ("The Big C," Broadway's Journey's End) is new to the production, playing Thomas, a ...
Packing up to go home after a frustrating day casting his new play, “Venus in Fur,” Thomas (James Ricks) has not been able to find the perfect leading lady to star in his adaptation of Leopold von ...
I’m not gonna lie. I’ve been reluctant to write this review about Theatre Three’s Venus in Fur. Can a production be so well done that it’s unreviewable? Or did it just mindfuck me to such an extent ...
If the Lowndes Shakespeare Center’s Mandell Theater had windows, surely they would be steamed over after a performance of “Venus in Fur,” onstage in an Orlando Shakes production that’s, well, steamy.
Playwright David Ives picked up an erotic novella written in German just to brush up on the language. What he got was inspiration. That novella, “Venus in Furs,” penned in 1870 by Leopold ...
In this image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Nina Arianda, left, and Hugh Dancy are shown in a scene from the Broadway production "Venus in Fur," in New York.