Preview
Production Season
Winter 2026
Dates of Performance
Thursday–Saturday, January 29–31 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, February 1 at 3 p.m. The Green Center for the Performing Arts, Moore Theatre
Production Staff
By LYNN NOTTAGE Commissioned and first produced by South Coast Repertory and Center Stage. Originally produced in New York by Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Artistic Director. Intimate Apparel is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. Directed by Guest Director Kathryn Bentley
Recommended Citation
Theatre, DePauw, "Intimate Apparel" (2026). All Past DePauw Theatre Seasons. 95, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/commtheatre_past/95
Keywords
undergraduate theatre
Play Summary
In 1905 New York City, Esther, a Black seamstress, is in great demand for the intimate apparel she creates for clients ranging from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. Though she fills others’ lives with beauty, she longs for love and a future of her own. Through a mutual acquaintance, she begins a correspondence with George, a lonesome Caribbean man working on the Panama Canal, and soon he persuades her to marry him sight unseen. Yet Esther’s heart is drawn to the Hasidic shopkeeper from whom she buys her cloth. When George finally arrives in New York, Esther must confront the truth of her choices and a future she could not have imagined.