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 ...

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 ...