CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- What first comes to mind when hearing of a play named “Intimate Apparel?” Maybe it’s an X-rated production, or maybe it’s about the business of selling retail undergarments.

The story that unfolds in Lynn Nottage’s “Intimate Apparel” is a delicate tapestry woven from hope, longing and a wistful acknowledgment of disappointments reckoned with and limitations faced. Those ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Set in 1905, a young African-American woman travels to New York City to ...

Long before women were buying sexy lingerie from such establishments as Victoria’s Secret and Frederick’s of Hollywood, they were hiring seamstresses like Esther to create their alluring undergarments ...

Wearing her heart on her sleeve while sewing intimates for her clientele, Esther is the talented, proud but shy Black seamstress in the turn-of-the-century New York 1905, who has built a savings for ...

While sorting the contents of her grandmother's Brooklyn brownstone a few years ago, playwright Lynn Nottage opened an old issue of Family Circle, and discovered a photograph of her great-grandmother.

GREENSBORO, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2004--VF Intimates, LP, a wholly owned subsidiary of VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC), the world's largest apparel supplier, announced today plans to launch its ...

A woman alone in New York can be a treacherous enterprise. Especially in 1905, when immigrants are flooding the city, there’s a migration northward from within the country, and there are rigid ...

Lynn Nottage’s 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning “Ruined” depicts women both exploited and defended amid civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The playwright’s 2003 “Intimate Apparel” is subtler, ...

For the past 100 years, three generations of Schwartz family members have helped women find the brassiere or corset that would enhance, rather than undermine, their self-image. Ben Schwartz, the third ...

New York (CNN) — Victoria’s Secret, for the first time, has introduced a collection of bras and panties specifically designed to meet the needs of women with disabilities. The retailer announced the ...