If you’re a black actress in the 1930s, your only shot at success lay in stealing small scenes in big Hollywood blockbusters. In By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, a sly satire by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, we meet Vera Stark whose guile was as glorious as her talent. In this wonderfully imagined play we all see both the hilarity and poignancy of a life in this often absurd cultural and moral climate.