2022 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Actress in a Musical Kearstin Piper Brown 2022 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Book of a Musical Lynn Nottage 2022 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Costume Design for a ...

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 ...

Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel is about fabric, its texture, feeling and effect. And she has fashioned a play where a delicate embroidery of words creates a rich tapestry that envelops an audience in ...

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 ...

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.

The Sankofa African American Theatre Company and Theatre Harrisburg are once again teaming up for a live show! This one, follows the powerful and moving story of an African American seamstress, her ...

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 ...

She set about excavating all she could about Ethel, but there wasn’t much in print about Black women of the time. She knew Ethel was born in Barbados in 1870, arrived, alone, in New York City at 18 ...

The 2024 Femmy Awards, presented by The Underfashion Club, the intimate apparel industry charitable organization dedicated to education, has scheduled its annual event for Aug. 6 once again at ...

Kiss goodbye to boring black or beige underthings and say hello to something a little more stimulating. In response to, or perhaps in spite of, all the lingerie-inspired dresses and tops starting to ...

Craftsmanship blossoms into genuine artistry in Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel. That statement applies to the play's heroine, an African-American seamstress who has won a measure of independence and ...