Actor’s Express is continuing its 34th season with a production of Intimate Apparel. The show by Lynn Nottage follows Esther, a seamstress who crafts beautiful lingerie for the well-to-do women uptown and the ladies of the night downtown in 1905.
When she receives a letter from a mystery man in Panama, her world is turned upside down. Intimate Apparel beautifully weaves together themes of intimacy, feminism, class exploitation, love, and friendship through the lens of the Black female protagonist.
Nottage is the winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle and Outer Critics Circle Awards and remains the only woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice, for Sweat (2017) and Ruined (2009). “Playwright Lynn Nottage has masterfully
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