2022 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Actress in a Musical Kearstin Piper Brown 2022 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Book of a Musical Lynn Nottage 2022 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Costume Design for a ...

NEW YORK -- The star of the off-Broadway opera "Intimate Apparel" is wowing audiences at Lincoln Center with his rich voice. Justin Austin tells CBS2's Dave Carlin his role is a childhood dream come ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Lynn Nottage’s play about a Black woman in 1905 becomes an opera, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon, that forefronts voices ignored by ...

Lynn Nottage speaks with the cast members who both have played the title role and how Nottage reimagined her play as an opera. I think we have to tell stories that connect to people, that people can ...

Stage Notes is a weekly aggregate post about theater, classical music and stage news, events, reviews and other pertinent information. After two decades, Raphael Parry will leave Shakespeare Dallas ...

“I want people to leave feeling good,” she continued. “I think that so much of my career I’ve written plays that are somewhat tough and that raise difficult questions, and it’s not that I won’t do ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Ricky Ian Gordon’s “Intimate Apparel” and “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” are premiering in New York almost simultaneously. By Elisabeth ...

The operatic adaptation of Lynn Nottage’s play marries the best of its love-and-loss narrative to Ricky Ian Gordon’s musical talents in Bartlett Sher’s production Heidi Waleson ...

Directing was never on Sheila Barksdale’s wish list. "I’m happy on stage," said the African-American actress from West Babylon. But when EastLine Theatre asked Barksdale to codirect its production of ...

It’s a privilege to listen to the fine operatic voices emanating from the mostly Black cast of Intimate Apparel, in a Lincoln Center theater with only 299 seats. Overhead, in a niche on the far wall, ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A playwright is making history with three shows taking the stage in one night in New York City. Playwright Lynn Nottage is breaking barriers. The Pulitzer Prize winner has not ...