Lisa Berry as Mayme and Raven Dauda as Esther in Intimate Apparel, now playing at the Bluma Appel Theatre. Photo by David Hou.
THEATRE: It’s all about love this week—love and the funny/depressing/sexy/kinky stuff that goes with it. Canstage’s latest production includes at least one of those things. Intimate Apparel follows Esther, an African-American seamstress whose financial independence depends upon the elegant corsets and other undergarments she sews for socialites and prostitutes. Amid the ragtime music of Scott Joplin, Esther dreams of opening her own boutique, moves to New York City, and falls for a man halfway around the world. Intimate Apparel was written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Lynn Nottage, and has won several awards, including the 2004 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, and the Canadian production won the 2008 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Costume Design. Bluma Appel Theatre (27 Front Street East), 8 p.m., $20–64.
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