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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 ...
"Intimate Apparel" is as perfect at the Mark Taper Forum as it apparently was in New York, where it won the top prize from three major critics groups this past season. Lynn Nottage's note-perfect play ...
For a play named after lingerie and with a bed positioned at center stage, “Intimate Apparel” is really more about the longing for intimacy than its achievement. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn ...
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After suffering a downturn last year, the intimate apparel sector is in a rebuilding phase. The expansion of digital platforms, increase in consumer spending and pent-up demand for customized and ...
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 ...
"Intimate Apparel" wears well. The Pasadena Playhouse revival of Lynn Nottage's award-winning 2003 drama, set at the turn of the century, boasts first and foremost a luminous lead performance by ...