CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- What first comes to mind when hearing of a play named “Intimate Apparel?” Maybe it’s an X-rated production, or maybe it’s about the business of selling retail undergarments.

Intimate Apparel follows the story of Esther, a black seamstress who lives in a boarding house for women and sews intimate apparel for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. She ...

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The time is 1905 in New York City. Esther, a Black seamstress, lives in a boarding house for women and sews intimate apparel for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to Black prostitutes. Her ...

Join us for an award-winning play written by Lynn Nottage, Intimate Apparel, presented by Compass Rose Theater in Annapolis, MD. The show will follow with a talkback and reception with the director, ...

The story that unfolds in Lynn Nottage’s “Intimate Apparel” is a delicate tapestry woven from hope, longing and a wistful acknowledgment of disappointments reckoned with and limitations faced. Those ...

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.

A woman alone in New York can be a treacherous enterprise. Especially in 1905, when immigrants are flooding the city, there’s a migration northward from within the country, and there are rigid ...

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CARBONDALE — The SIUC department of theater will present “Intimate Apparel” by Lynn Nottage Thursday, April 29 through Sunday, May 2, in the McLeod Theater located in the Communications Building on ...