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 ...

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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 ...

Laced with themes of tenderness and resilience, “Intimate Apparel” tells the story of a Black seamstress in 1905 New York. Written by Lynn Nottage DRA ’89, the play navigates the challenges of a woman ...

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Before she became the first (and, so far, only) woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice, for her grittier plays “Ruined” (2009) and “Sweat” (2015), Lynn Nottage had one of her first successes ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Lynn Nottage’s play about a Black woman in 1905 becomes an opera, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon, that forefronts voices ignored by ...