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.
How can you love someone you’ve never met? This isn’t a question posed by the reality show Love is Blind, but by Lynn Nottage’s historical drama Intimate Apparel, where a Black seamstress in New York ...
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Opened at Old City’s Arden Theatre in October, directed by Philly’s Barrymore Award-winner Amina Robinson, and starring top-tier local thespians Jessica Johnson, Zuhairah and Akeem Davis, the success ...
The time is 1905. The place, the Lower East Side. Sewing beautiful lingerie gives Esther Mills, an African American seamstress, an intimate look at the lives of her clientele, but she yearns for ...