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.
At 35, Esther is lonely. A skilled African-American seamstress in 1905 Manhattan, she makes exquisite undergarments for clients including a sincere socialite from tony Fifth Avenue and an earnest ...
At 35, Esther is lonely. A skilled African-American seamstress in 1905 Manhattan, she makes exquisite undergarments for clients including a sincere socialite from tony Fifth Avenue and an earnest ...
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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 the cramped tenements and bustling streets of 1905 New York, Esther sits at her sewing machine, quietly stitching together the intimate garments of others while daring to dream of a life that ...
The Westport Country Playhouse is currently boarding a lovely production of Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel," sensitively directed by Mary B. Robinson. This touching, engaging, funny play about a ...
The operatic adaptation of Lynn Nottage’s play marries the best of its love-and-loss narrative to Ricky Ian Gordon’s musical talents in Bartlett Sher’s production Heidi Waleson ...
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