Closing Date: March 10, 2019 Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 W 42nd St. Before we get too serious, let’s meet Vera Stark. Enter Vera Stark, a determined and headstrong African-American maid to a white movie star. Can someone spoil the plot of BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK for me? All shows at 7:30pm plus a 2pm Matinee on November 21 Vera Stark, an African-American Vaudeville actor, lives with her friends in Hollywood in the 1930s. By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Tuesday, November 17 - Saturday, November 21, 2015 Vera Stark, an African-American Vaudeville actor, lives with her friends in Hollywood in the 1930s. But it is also a beacon that represents the hope that Vera Stark is still out there, alive and well and willing to tell her story. Watching Vera and Lottie seize their moment to play Von Oster’s idea of real “Negroes of the earth” is a riot. BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK is a seventy-year journey through the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong African-American maid and budding actress, and her tangled relationship with her boss, a white Hollywood star desperately grasping to hold on to her career. Once you meet Vera Stark you can’t forget her. When the stars align and both actresses are cast in the same Southern epic, the story behind the cameras leaves Vera with an unexpected and controversial legacy scholars will question for decades to come. Before we get too serious, let’s meet Vera Stark. and 25 min. If you have any information as to what became of Vera Stark, or you are Vera Stark and have stumbled upon this website and want to stage a triumphant comeback, email me at herb.forrester@gmail.com. By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Hollywood bio-dram about the demeaning career options for black actresses going back to the 1930s smartly showcases scribe's comic gifts. --- By David Sheward ... a Broadway veteran so desperate for any movie job that she'll shuck and jive like Stepin Fetchit for the first director to cross her path. BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK is a seventy-year journey through the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong African-American maid and budding actress, and her tangled relationship with her boss, a white Hollywood star desperately grasping to hold on to her career. BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK by LYNN NOTTAGE Directed by Steve Ray. Enter Vera Stark, a determined and headstrong African-American maid to a white movie star. Vera lived a life which is comparable to an exciting movie full of adventures and passion. The woman struggling to find her place in society here is Vera Stark, an actress/maid played with spunk and swagger by Sanaa Lathan. By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Bios and Notes Designer's Notes. ‘By the Way, Meet Vera Stark’ Review: Lynn Nottage’s Sharp Teeth A revived play splendidly dramatizes a little known episode of black Hollywood history ‘By the Way, Meet Vera Stark’ is a comedy that shows playwright Lynn Nottage’s sharp teeth A revived play splendidly dramatizes a little known episode of black Hollywood history From Scenic Design / Jinqiu He By the Way, Meet Vera Stark uses elegant language to present the highlights and mysteries of the life of Vera Stark. But while this revival of her new play, “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark,” walks and talks like a screwball comedy, it has a real brain in its head. But it turns out that Vera is an actress, too! But while this revival of her new play, “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark,” walks and talks like a screwball comedy, it has a real brain in its head. But it turns out that Vera is an actress, too! By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, Nottage’s razor-sharp satire about the struggle of black actresses in the movie industry, now being given a crackling revival at Signature Theaters. “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” imagines the back story of one of those talented black actresses seen on 1930s movie screens almost exclusively in the roles of maids, slaves or mammies. By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. The title character of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage’s 2009 masterwork By the Way, Meet Vera Stark has been lost to the ages—and we are the poorer for it. By the Way, Meet Vera Stark is a quicksilver construction, blending disparate elements of genre parody, academic cant, broad humor, social comment …