“Venus in Fur” borrows from a classic literary trope, the frame narrative — presenting a play about a play — to relate the tale of director Thomas Novachek’s struggle to find an actress toperform the ...

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 ...

masochism, but in a loving way.) After an uninspiring day of auditions, he is set to go home to his bossy fiancé, when the door opens and in bursts Vanda, very late, very profane and very clueless.

Roman Polanski. Sadomasochism. What could possible go wrong? The combination of director and subject material in “Venus in Fur” is wickedly perverse, just as it should be. Polanski and David Ives’ ...

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 ...

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), ...

Hugh Dancy on Vibrators and China’s Sex Museum“The ancient artifacts that they’ve gathered together are so fascinating — some kind of rudimentary dildos … A really very impressive collection.” Theater ...

here really was never a doubt that director Aimee Hayes would one day bring the Tony Award-winning “Venus in Fur” to New Orleans. She had never seen it live, but when it opened Off Broadway, she knew ...

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 ...