BY ALAN SHERROD Venus in Fur, playwright David Ives’ twist on Leopold Sacher-Masoch’s 1870 erotic novella, opened off-Broadway in 2010 to such success that it moved to Broadway the next year. By 2013, the play had inspired a Roman…
Review: A Search for Identities in Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘Hir’
By Alan Sherrod As the lights come up on Taylor Mac’s Hir, which opened last Friday at Flying Anvil Theatre, the audience may believe for an instant that it has stumbled onto a contemporary update of the typical dysfunctional…
Review: Comic Irony Comes Into Sharp Focus in Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘8 x 10’
By Alan Sherrod With apologies to Henry David Thoreau — do people lead lives of quiet comic desperation? That seems to be the vastly entertaining and charming statement of Flying Anvil Theatre’s current production, 8 x 10, a collection of…