From left, Rasool Jahan as Esther and Kathryn Hunter-Williams as Mrs. Dickson in PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of “Intimate Apparel” by Lynn Nottage. Jon Gardiner Jon Gardiner Lynn Nottage ...

Long before women were buying sexy lingerie from such establishments as Victoria’s Secret and Frederick’s of Hollywood, they were hiring seamstresses like Esther to create their alluring undergarments ...

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 ...

After stitching, hemming and seaming for four performances, the Dramat’s production of “Intimate Apparel” finished its last show with quiet grace and emotional resonance on Saturday. Written by Lynn ...

The scene is lower Manhattan, year 1905. Esther, a 35-year-old African American spinster, pours her energy into sewing the intricate creations of intimate apparel from the bedroom where she boards.

Lynn Nottage speaks with the cast members who both have played the title role and how Nottage reimagined her play as an opera. I think we have to tell stories that connect to people, that people can ...

Most plays engage only two of our senses, the same ones movies do: sight and hearing. In Lynn Nottage's fine, affecting Intimate Apparel, at the Mark Taper Forum through Sept. 12, touch and smell take ...

The setting is lower Manhattan in 1905, and the wide stage at Dorset Playhouse abounds in details: a gas lamp hanging from the ceiling, a white porcelain wash basin and pitcher, patterned wallpaper.

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 ...

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