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 ...

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 ...

Meet Andy Sachs. A million girls would kill to have her job. She's not one of them.

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 ...

Jasmine Bracey is beginning her new year with a new challenge. Already a veteran actor on stage, in films and on television, she is directing a theatrical production for the first time: Lynn Nottage’s ...