WINNER! 2012 Tony Award Best Actress in a Play: Nina Arianda

June 11, 2012 - Broadwayworld.com

Nina Arianda wins Best Actress in a Play at the 2012 Tony Awards.
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Getting Ready for the 2012 Tony Awards: Nina Arianda

June 11, 2012 - Vogue

Sunday evening—the 66th Annual Tony Awards—was a very, very big night. The ceremony, which was held at New York’s Beacon Theatre, was especially exciting for the actors and actresses who make up some of the season’s most memorable productions, including Nina Arianda (Venus in Fur).
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Nina Arianda Interview

June 1, 2012 - Studio 360

Nina Arianda is the it-girl on Broadway — she’s nominated for a Tony for her performance in David Ives’ comedy Venus In Fur. Listen to her interview with Studio 360 here.
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Q&A with David Ives: S&M on stage

May 24, 2012 - The Economist

Mr Ives has written dozens of plays, many of them prize-winning, and has adapted everything from Twain to Dickens to Feydeau. We spoke to him about the work of staging extreme sexual circumstances and the virtues of writing in verse.
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Hugh Dancy on his Role in Hysteria

May 18, 2012 - CBS This Morning

Hugh Dancy stopped by "CBS This Morning" to talk about his role in the new film "Hysteria," which tells the story of the inventor of a device widely-used among women.
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Hugh Dancy on Hysteria

May 17, 2012 - Vulture

Hugh Dancy plays the inventor of the vibrator in the period sex comedy Hysteria, also a term that harks back to the catch-all diagnosis that used to be given to women for whatever ailed them. Dancy, who is currently on Broadway in the Tony-nominated S&M-themed Venus in Fur, took a break to chat with Vulture about the film and his next role as a serial-killer profiler on the upcoming NBC series Hannibal.
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Fast Chat: Hugh Dancy is from Venus

May 17, 2012 - Newsday

If hearing the name Hugh Dancy conjures up chick flicks ("Ella Enchanted," "The Jane Austen Book Club," "Confessions of a Shopaholic") -- well, think again. The British actor and Oxford grad recently earned a Drama Desk nomination for his work in the quirky, kinky Broadway comedy Venus in Fur (which runs at the Lyceum Theatre through June 17).
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Hugh Dancy: By the Book

May 16, 2012 - The New York Times

The New York Times's Sunday Book Review interviewed Hugh Dancy. Find out what he's reading!
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Tony Nominee Nina Arianda on Her Obsession with The Hunger Games, Downton Abbey & More

May 9, 2012 - Broadway.com

Venus in Fur leading lady Nina Arianda, who is currently celebrating her second Best Actress Tony nomination in a row, confessed to a fixation on the "upstairs/downstairs" dramas of writer Julian Fellowes, a girl crush on Katniss Everdeen and more.
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See the Stars at the 2012 Drama Desk Awards Nominees' Reception!

May 9, 2012 - Broadway.com

The 2012 Drama Desk Award nominees were announced on April 27, and on May 8, the happy honorees gathered for a cocktail reception at Oceana. Click below for your inside pass into this star-studded event.
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The 2012 Lucille Lortel Awards: Red Carpet Arrivals

May 7, 2012 - Playbill.com

Mario Cantone hosted the 27th annual Lucille Lortel Awards May 6. See Hugh Dancy and others on the Red Carpet.
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Venus In Fur Tony Award Nominations

May 1, 2012 - Playbill.com

BEST PLAY

BEST ACTRESS: Nina Arianda
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Hugh Dancy Nominated for the Best Actor in a Play Drama Desk Award

April 27, 2012  - Playbill.com

Tony winner Donna Murphy, who will be seen in the Public Theater's summer staging of Into the Woods, and "Smash" star Brian d'Arcy James announced the nominations for the 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards April 27 at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
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David Ives and The New Yorker's John Lahr Discuss VENUS IN FUR

April 24, 2012

Playwright David Ives explains his adaptation of the classic erotic novel and how it evolved into the smash hit play VENUS IN FUR.
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Venus in Fur Nominated for Drama League Awards

April 24, 2012 – BroadwayWorld.com

BEST PLAY

BEST ACTRESS - Nina Arianda

Hugh Dancy Q&A: Venus in Fur

April 16, 2012 – GoldDerby

"The play is fast. It's very verbal. It takes very sharp turns very quickly," said Hugh Dancy about the original play Venus in Fur currently on Broadway. "I love that kind of experience in the theatre where you're by the seat of your pants."
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BWW TV EXCLUSIVE: BACKSTAGE WITH RICHARD RIDGE: Hugh Dancy & Nina Arianda Get Intimate - Talk VENUS IN FUR & More!

April 5, 2012 – BroadwayWorld.com

Welcome to BroadwayWorld's exclusive talk show, BACKSTAGE WITH Richard Ridge. Follow Richard as he visits the theater's best and brightest in their dressing rooms, on their stages and favorite hang outs to talk about their lives, careers and all of the things you don't know, but want to know.
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John Lahr and David Ives: The Creative Process Will Be Presented April 17

April 2, 2012 – Playbill.com

John Lahr and David Ives will take part in a discussion about the creative process April 17 at 92YTribeca. Author and New Yorker senior drama critic Lahr will join playwright Ives, currently represented on Broadway with Venus in Fur, for a "lively conversation at 92YTribeca on the art of creating new works for the stage." The evening will begin at 7 PM.
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Good Vibrations

March 27, 2012 – ModernLuxury.com

Hugh Dancy, currently starring in the Broadway production of Venus in Fur and on film in the upcoming romantic period comedy Hysteria, has steadily built a career that’s notable for its breadth of roles and diversity of subject matter, and also for his modest approach throughout.
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HUGH DANCY INTERVIEWS WITH CBS 2'S DANA TYLER

March 19, 2012 – CBS New York

Dana Tyler sits down with Hugh Dancy to discuss his return to Broadway in Venus in Fur.
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HUGH DANCY ON "LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON"

February 21, 2012 – Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Hugh Dancy talks about his role in Venus in Fur on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."
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Dark Dining Venus in Fur Night on March 3

February 8, 2012 – Dark Dining Projects

Dark Dining Projects, Sensory Feasts Served to Blindfolded Guests, and Camaje Bistro present Venus in Fur Night, a slightly kinky artist-created affair celebrating the Broadway production. Revel in four courses paired with wines, punctuated by music, and maybe a caress or two. Includes discount offers to the play.

Advance reservations required: http://www.darkdiningprojects.com/calendar.htm

New York Times Top 10 of 2011: Venus in Fur

December 16, 2011 – NYTimes.com

Theater critic, Charles Isherwood, names Venus in Fur one of his top 10 productions of 2011.
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2011 Breakout Stars: Nina Arianda

December 16, 2011 – Entertainment Weekly

Nina Arianda: Two great Broadway performances this year - first as a wise-craking moll in Born Yesterday (which earned her a Tony nod) and then as a seductive actress in Venus in Fur - launched this 27-year-old into the big time.

Bloomberg's Best Shows of 2011: Venus in Fur

December 15, 2011 – Bloomberg

The prolific David Ives finds comedy in the oddest places; in this case, a grim rehearsal studio where a young actress has come to audition for the role of a head-tripping, aristocratic dominatrix. Roles reverse enough times to keep your head spinning — except that you won’t be able to take your eyes off Nina Arianda, delivering the bravura performance of the season. (Friedman thru Dec. 18; Lyceum beginning Feb. 7.)
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The Year in Theater - Star of the Year

December 4, 2011 – New York Magazine

Actress makes Broadway debut in role (Born Yesterday) originated by Judy Holliday, gets Tony® nomination, then goes on to reprise the role that made her the talk of the town (Venus in Fur). So goes the story of Nina Arianda, whose future is as bright as the laughs she garners.
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'Venus in Fur's' Nina Arianda has cast a spell

November 21, 2011 – LATimes.com

The actress has been praised for her work in David Ives' new play on Broadway about a sexy and surreal stage audition. Unstinting work went into her preparation to win the role.
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Photo Coverage: VENUS IN FUR Opening Night Heats Up Broadway

November 9, 2011 – BroadwayWorld.com

Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of VENUS IN FUR, the new play by David Ives, directed by Walter Bobbie, opened last night, November 8 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) and BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the sizzling stars at the curtain call and the after party!
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THE NATURAL - Nina Arianda: Broadway's New Star

November 7, 2011 – NewYorker.com

On September 21, 2009, three days after her twenty-fifth birthday, Nina Arianda, like most ambitious actresses just out of drama school, was making the rounds in New York, looking for work. She had just auditioned for a show that was being staged in Baltimore. Now she was on her way to Pearl Studios, on Eighth Avenue, to try out for an Off Broadway production of a new play by David Ives, Venus in Fur, the story of a fierce and funny psychosexual power struggle between an actress and her director.
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BWW TV: Hot! Hot! Hot! Sneak Peak at Nina Arianda & Hugh Dancy Heating Up the Stage in VENUS IN FUR

November 5, 2011 – BroadwayWorld.com

Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of VENUS IN FUR is an acclaimed new play by David Ives, directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie and starring Tony nominee Nina Arianda reprising her acclaimed breakthrough performance and Emmy Award nominee Hugh Dancy. Check out video highlights below!
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Hugh Dancy Is Not Hiding His Secretly Pervy True Self

October 30, 2011 – NYMag.com

Don't read too much into his wearing a dog collar onstage. According to Hugh Dancy, the age of the repressed British man is over. "There's this idea that we're all people who are buttoned up and then underneath there's a whole cauldron of complexity and neuroses," he says when we meet for breakfast not far from where he and his wife, Claire Danes, live in Soho.
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Playwright David Ives on How Venus Got Her Fur

October 25, 2011 – Broadway.com

Behind David Ives' mild-mannered exterior is a dramatist who loves to take on seemingly impossible challenges. Here, Ives explains how he took an 1870 novel that spawned the term "sado-masochism" and turned it into a sexy comedy set to open on Broadway on November 8.
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Hugh Dancy

October 18, 2011 – Out.com

"Boyish" and "dashing" may be the first words that spring to mind when Hugh Dancy enters a room, but they don't tell the whole story. Maybe Walter Bobbie, who is directing the actor in the dark comedy Venus in Fur on Broadway this fall, nails it when he says, "The two sexiest things a person can have are intelligence and spontaneity. And Hugh definitely has those." Of course, Bobbie adds, "He happens to be gorgeous."
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Three Playwrights Say Hello (Again) to Broadway

October 18, 2011 – Playbill.com

"Broadway is fun," David Ives says. "Theatre is theatre, but Broadway is theatre writ large. I've spent many years Off- and Off-Off- and Off-Off-Off-, but it's nice to be on a big stage and have a large marquee. Though the challenge is always the same – make it good."
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Venus in Fur, a Play About Power, Begins Broadway Life

October 13, 2011 – Playbill.com

Venus in Fur, David Ives' two-character play about the relationship between a hungry actress and a controlling writer-director, makes its Broadway premiere Oct. 13 following an acclaimed Off-Broadway debut in 2010. Nina Arianda returns to play Vanda, again under the direction of Walter Bobbie.
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Up On The Marquee: VENUS IN FUR

October 1, 2011 – BroadwayWorld.com

The marquee is up for Venus in Fur and BroadwayWorld brings you complete photo coverage.
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Nina Arianda & Hugh Dancy Preview Their Sizzling Broadway Pairing in Venus in Fur

September 26, 2011 – Broadway.com

They're hot-in more ways than one-and now rising stars Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy are prepping to co-star on Broadway in David Ives' Venus in Fur. On September 26, the stars took time away from rehearsal to meet the press at MTC's rehearsal studios. View photos...

Behind the Poster

September 19, 2011 – NYTimes.com

For the coming Broadway production of Venus in Fur, David Ives's two-character dark comedy about lust, power and a sexually-charged audition, the photographer Jason Bell decided to leave the whips and chains behind. Read more...

Nina the Great: Venus In Fur Comes to Broadway

September 15, 2011 – New York Observer

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 was—I just started crying," she said a few weeks ago over an afternoon cappuccino in Soho. Read more...

Venus Returns

September 15, 2011 – NYTimes.com

Charles Isherwood on the coming Broadway production of the David Ives play Venus in Fur, starring Hugh Dancy and Nina Arianda. Watch the video...

Hugh Dancy to Sex It Up with Nina Arianda in the Broadway Premiere of Venus in Fur

August 15, 2011 – Broadway.com

Hugh Dancy is set to join the previously announced Nina Arianda in the Broadway premiere of David Ives' Venus in Fur. Read more...

Tickets Now Available for Manhattan Theatre Club's Venus in Fur

August 1, 2011 – BroadwayWorld.com

Single tickets are available now for Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of Venus in Fur by David Ives, directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie featuring Tony Award nominee Nina Arianda reprising her acclaimed breakthrough performance. Read more...