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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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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 ...
Dave Carlin has covered major national news stories and events in the past four decades including Superstorm Sandy and its tri-state impacts, Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina and Iniki on Kauai, ...
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 ...