June 2, 2017, Friday - Ten Thousand Things' Intimate Apparel at Open Book (3 nights)

Location: Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Ten Thousand Things presents: Intimate Apparel

June 2 - 4

Intimate Apparel is a beautiful story of an African American seamstress in the early 1900s, and her long-distance correspondence and romance with a worker on the Panama Canal, as well as her loving friendships with a prostitute and a Jewish tailor. Directed by Austen Van, and featuring Aimee Bryant, Darius Dotch, Dame-Jasmine Hughes, George Keller, Kris Nelson and Karen Wiese-Thompson.

Following a tour to correctional facilities, low-income centers and shelters, the show will play to the public May 12 -- June 4. Tickets are $30. Pay what you can for audiences under age 30; please present ID at the door.