"Intimate Apparel"

Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage’s "Intimate Apparel" is a moving and intimate story that confronts race and religion. This rich, vivid portrait of turn-of-the-last-century New York features Esther, a black seamstress, who lives in a boarding-room house for women and sews intimate apparel for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. Her skills and discretion are much in demand, and she has managed to stuff a goodly sum of money into her quilt over the years. Her plan is to find the right man and use the money she has saved to open a beauty parlor where black women will be treated as royally as the white women.