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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.
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 ...
While sorting the contents of her grandmother's Brooklyn brownstone a few years ago, playwright Lynn Nottage opened an old issue of Family Circle, and discovered a photograph of her great-grandmother.
After suffering a downturn last year, the intimate apparel sector is in a rebuilding phase. The expansion of digital platforms, increase in consumer spending and pent-up demand for customized and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Playwright Lynn Nottage has a laundry basketful of accolades — she is the first woman to win two Pulitzer Prizes for drama (“Ruined” [2009] and “Sweat” [2017]). She is a recipient of ...
Lynn Nottage’s “Intimate Apparel,” a beautiful play about a young Black seamstress struggling to make her way in 1905 New York, had a memorable Chicago premiere at the Steppenwolf Theatre some 17 ...