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Don't say I didn't warn you. Harlequin Productions' staging of Intimate Apparel only has three performances left before it must close to allow for the theater to move on with its season. All good things must come to an end at some point. And that time is now for the show.

Lynn Nottage's award-winning play about an African American woman trying to find her way in the word by sewing undergarments for ladies of fashion as well as ladies of the evening in lower Manhattan in 1905 is a tender drama about love and sacrifice.

The show runs at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Visit Harlequin's Web site to read about the research and design process that went in to building the set and a photo gallery of the show.