The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, will complete its 2010-11 season with the area premiere of David Ives' Venus in Fur May 25-July 3, 2011. New artistic director David Muse will direct th…
Last winter David Ives’ Venus in Fur premiered at Classic Stage Company where Nina Arianda (Born Yesterday) gave the  breakout performance of the year under the direction of Walter …
This two-hander on sex and power begins predictably but holds more than a few surprises, and Nina Arianda is an actor to be watched.
Even sex can be a bore. So why not up the ante with sado-masochism?
David Ives and Walter Bobbie take all the fun out of sexual power games by talking the subject to death.
An argument has been made, most recently and notably by Christopher Hitchens, that women are inherently not funny. It's not true, of course, but, still, there's a long history"from Phyllis D…
Hot performances spark a new stage version of an erotic Victorian novel
Nina Arianda once again lives up to her growing and richly deserved legend.
The first time Nina Arianda walked on the stage at the Cort Theatre, she broke into tears. "I was having a conversation with somebody, and I got onto the stage, and I looked out, and it w…