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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In celebration of Black History Month, “Intimate Apparel” — telling the story of an African-Americn seamstress in 1905 — opens in Martinez this weekend. Directed by Vallejo resident Carlene Coury, ...