Join us for an award-winning play written by Lynn Nottage, Intimate Apparel, presented by Compass Rose Theater in Annapolis, MD. The show will follow with a talkback and reception with the director, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If we’re lucky throughout a theater season or two, we get to see one or two transcendent performances so connected to the character it is almost impossible to separate actor from the role. That’s what ...