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 ...

Theatre Three will present Intimate Apparel by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, a moving and powerful story of love, resilience, and self-discovery in early 20th-century America. With ...

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 ...

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.

CEDAR RAPIDS - 'Intimate Apparel” is being staged in an intimate space - all the better to see the intricate detail in the corsets laced throughout the production. While the script calls for six ...

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 ...

Lynn Nottage speaks with the cast members who both have played the title role and how Nottage reimagined her play as an opera. I think we have to tell stories that connect to people, that people can ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Intimate Apparel" is as perfect at the Mark Taper Forum as it apparently was in New York, where it won the top prize from three major critics groups this past season. Lynn Nottage's note-perfect play ...