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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b><i><u><span style="font-size: 36pt; color: rgb(191, 144, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK</span></u></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><u><span style="font-size: 36pt; color: rgb(191, 144, 0);"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></u></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">The Helen Theatre, Playhouse Square<br class="ContentPasted0">
</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Written by Lynn Nottage<br class="ContentPasted0">
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THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK </span></strong></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: black;"><span class="ContentPasted0">is
a seventy-year journey through the life of Vera Stark, an 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. When circumstances collide and both women
land roles in the same Southern epic, the story behind the cameras leaves Vera with a surprising and controversial legacy scholars will debate for years to come. In this new comedy from the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of
<i class="ContentPasted0">Ruined</i>, Lynn Nottage draws upon the screwball films of the 1930s to take a funny and irreverent look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood.<br>
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