It’s a very good sign. Composers are once again looking to plays, instead of movies, as source material for musical theater. Last year, David Lindsay-Abaire’s 2000 play “Kimberly Akimbo” became a ...

3 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 4 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities Intimate Apparel follows the story of Esther, a black seamstress who lives in a ...

Kilo Brava is sold direct to consumers, but owner Kristin Bear also has wholesale deals with national retailers like ...

Jasmine Bracey is beginning her new year with a new challenge. Already a veteran actor on stage, in films and on television, she is directing a theatrical production for the first time: Lynn Nottage’s ...

Winner of the 2004 New York Drama Critics’ Circle for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for John Glassner Playwriting Award, 2005 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, and 2004 AUDELCO ...

Playwright Lynn Nottage described writing the opera adaption of her “Intimate Apparel” play as revisiting “an old friend” — and PBS viewers will get to experience the 2004 work which premieres Friday.

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While sorting the contents of her grandmother's Brooklyn brownstone a few years ago, playwright Lynn Nottage opened an old issue of Family Circle, and discovered a photograph of her great-grandmother.

Dressmakers make such rich subjects for storytelling. They translate our sheer necessity for clothes into meaning, and give visions a form we can feel, in every sense of the word. In Paige Hernandez’s ...

Lynn Nottage’s “Intimate Apparel,” a beautiful play about a young Black seamstress struggling to make her way in 1905 New York, had a memorable Chicago premiere at the Steppenwolf Theatre some 17 ...

Would you marry someone sight unseen? What if it was 1905 and you were a 35-year-old Black woman with no appealing romantic prospects? That’s Esther’s predicament in “Intimate Apparel,” a ...