Craftsmanship blossoms into genuine artistry in Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel. That statement applies to the play's heroine, an African-American seamstress who has won a measure of independence and ...

Dressmakers make such rich subjects for storytelling. They translate our sheer necessity for clothes into meaning, and give visions a form we can feel, in every sense of the word. In Paige Hernandez’s ...

Renee Elizabeth Wilson as Esther in Theater J’s production of Intimate Apparel, playing through Nov. 13; Credit: Ryan Maxwell Photography Her work brings her into regular contact with Mr. Marks (Yoni ...

Most plays engage only two of our senses, the same ones movies do: sight and hearing. In Lynn Nottage's fine, affecting Intimate Apparel, at the Mark Taper Forum through Sept. 12, touch and smell take ...