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.

3 Review: AIN'T TOO PROUD-THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS at Ogunquit Playhouse 4 Photos: AIN'T TOO PROUD at Ogunquit Playhouse The circumstances have changed since the era portrayed in Lynn ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jacqueline Thompson and Chauncy Thomas star in the New Jewish Theatre’s production of Lynn Nottage’s ‘Intimate Apparel,’ which runs Jan. 26-Feb.12. “I adore her language and I’m excited to say her ...

PBS Great Performances has announced that the filmed capture of the Lincoln Center Theater production of Intimate Apparel will air on Friday, Sept. 23, 9:00 p.m. ET. Set in turn of the century New ...

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 ...

The story that unfolds in Lynn Nottage’s “Intimate Apparel” is a delicate tapestry woven from hope, longing and a wistful acknowledgment of disappointments reckoned with and limitations faced. Those ...

Successful African American seamstress Esther’s business acumen, innovative skills, and utter discretion are much in demand by diverse clientele. You see, it’s 1905 and she crafts elegant and ...

Set in turn of the century New York, Intimate Apparel tells the story of Esther, a lonely, single African-American woman who makes her living sewing beautiful corsets and ladies’ undergarments.