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Intimate Apparel at The City Stage
Dates: 8/5/2026 - 8/23/2026
📍 Theatre: The City Stage
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Intimate Apparel is a play by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, set in 1905 New York City, following Esther, a seamstress who sews exquisite lingerie for an array of clients while navigating a forbidden romance with an Orthodox Jewish fabric vendor and a long-distance courtship with a worker building the Panama Canal. The production stars KCAT Ensemble Member Chioma Anyanwu as Esther, with Lynn King, Allison F. Rich, David Sadzin, Joe Serrano, and Teonna Wesley in supporting roles. The production is directed by Teresa Leggard, who makes her KCAT directorial debut with this show.
Cast and Creative Team for Intimate Apparel at The City Stage
Cast
Chioma Anyanwu
Esther
Lynn King
Mrs. Dickson
Allison F. Rich
Mrs. Van Buren
David Sadzin
George
Joe Serrano
Mr. Marks
Teonna Wesley
Mayme
Creative Team
Teresa Leggard
Director
Ta'ja Snipes
Scenic Designer
Whitney Manney
Costume Designer
Selena Gonzalez-Lopez
Lighting Designer
Mary Louise Robinson
Sound Designer
Taylor Jene Sullivan
Properties Designer
Tinna Rivera
Stage Manager
Mackenzie Reppy
Assistant Stage Manager
Elizabeth Hilvert
Wardrobe Supervisor
Ari Hernandez
Production Manager
Tyler Lindquist
Technical Director
Yetunde Felix-Ukwu
Dialect Coach
Jenise Cook
Intimacy Director
News About Intimate Apparel at The City Stage
Review: INTIMATE APPAREL at Kansas City Actors' Theatre
August 09, 2026 The year is 1905. The place is New York City. The play is Lynn Nottage’s intimate and surprisingly affective comedy/drama “Intimate Apparel.” “Intimate Apparel” tells a tale drawn from Nottage’s own passed down ancestry stories and perhaps a little imagined history. The inspiration is a sepia toned photo of a seamstress from the turn of the twentieth-century. The lights come up on Esther Mills (Chioma Anyanwu), a thirty-six-year-old gifted seamstress, who has carved out a niche business for herself designing and creating intimate apparel for a widely diverse customer base. Esther’s customers represent both the upper crust of New York’s society, the 400, and others who populate the raunchy Tenderloin district and whose less public clientele are the bored husbands of society’s 400.
INTIMATE APPAREL to Open at Kansas City Actors Theatre's Season 22
July 20, 2026 Kansas City Actors Theatre will present INTIMATE APPAREL by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage at the City Stage in Union Station, starring KCAT Ensemble Member Chioma Anyanwu and directed by Teresa Leggard.About the Theatre
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