STORY LINE: Thomas Novachek is the writer-director of a new play, an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Furs which inspired the term Masochism. He is on the telephone lamenting the inadequacies of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Photo by John Barrois Todd d'Amour and Veronica Russell star in Venus in Fur. The 19th-century Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch does not usually spring to mind when we hear the word he ...

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), ...

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.

Plays adapted into movies always feel naked by the time they make it to the screen, their theatrical bones showing through in a most awkward and unbecoming way. That’s more or less true of Roman ...

The Weekend Theater, 11001 W. Seventh St. at Chester Street, Little Rock, stages “Venus in Fur” by David Ives, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and March 30-April 1 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday and April 2. Thomas ...