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 ...
SALISBURY — Piedmont Players is presenting “Intimate Apparel” by Lynn Nottage. Nottage is the first woman to have won the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jasmine Bracey is beginning her new year with a new challenge. Already a veteran actor on stage, in films and on television, she is directing a theatrical production for the first time: Lynn Nottage’s ...
That's how playwright Lynn Nottage describes "Intimate Apparel," her 2003 drama about a lonely Black seamstress in 1905 Manhattan who falls in love with a Barbadian laborer, currently running at ...
Lynn Nottage’s “Intimate Apparel,” a beautiful play about a young Black seamstress struggling to make her way in 1905 New York, had a memorable Chicago premiere at the Steppenwolf Theatre some 17 ...
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.
Would you marry someone sight unseen? What if it was 1905 and you were a 35-year-old Black woman with no appealing romantic prospects? That’s Esther’s predicament in “Intimate Apparel,” a ...
Why are we asking for donations? Why are we asking for donations? This site is free thanks to our community of supporters. Voluntary donations from readers like you keep our news accessible for ...
Dressmakers make such rich subjects for storytelling. They translate our sheer necessity for clothes into meaning, and give visions a form we can feel, in every sense of the word. In Paige Hernandez’s ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS - 'Intimate Apparel” is being staged in an intimate space - all the better to see the ...