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<span style="margin:0px"><b><i><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; color: black;">Cleveland State University Department of Theatre and Dance proudly presents</span></i></b></span><span style="margin:0px"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></b></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px"><b><i><u><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 36pt; margin: 0px; color: rgb(191, 144, 0);">BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK</span></u></i></b></span><span style="margin:0px"><u><span style="font-size: 36pt; margin: 0px; color: rgb(191, 144, 0);" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></u></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px"><b><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 24pt; margin: 0px; color: black;">April 20-30, 2023</span></b></span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px"><i><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; color: black;">The Helen Theatre, Playhouse Square<br class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">
</span></i></span><span style="margin:0px"><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; color: black;">Written by Lynn Nottage<br class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0">
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<span style="margin:0px"><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0 ContentPasted1" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px"><b>Aidan Callahan
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<b>Cassandra Miller-Myers</b> (Vera Stark), <b>Kat O’Donnell </b>(Gloria), <b>Trinity Thomas</b> (Lottie),
<b>Quinton Turpin, Jr. </b>(Leroy / Herb) </span></span></p>
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THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK </span></strong></span><span style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; color: black;"><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">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<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><i class="x_ContentPasted0 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 class="ContentPasted0">
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