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 ...

Special to The Daily Reflector Oct 20, 2022 Oct 20, 2022 Audiences have a chance to be up close and personal for the ECU/Loessin Playhouse production of “Intimate Apparel,” which continues through ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Renee Elizabeth Wilson as Esther in Theater J’s production of Intimate Apparel, playing through Nov. 13; Credit: Ryan Maxwell Photography Her work brings her into regular contact with Mr. Marks (Yoni ...

One of the great and all too infrequent joys of being a theatre critic is to happen upon a show where all the stars converge to create a stellar and commanding theatrical experience. Such a moment ...

If we’re lucky throughout a theater season or two, we get to see one or two transcendent performances so connected to the character it is almost impossible to separate actor from the role. That’s what ...

One of the best things about theater is the opportunity it gives us to peek into the stories and lives of others. Everyone has their own unique tale, and theater gives us a window into lives and ...

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.

In celebration of Black History Month, “Intimate Apparel” — telling the story of an African-Americn seamstress in 1905 — opens in Martinez this weekend. Directed by Vallejo resident Carlene Coury, ...