PHOTOS: Signature Theatre’s By The Way, Meet Vera StarOpening Night

By The Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage and directed by Kamilah Forbes opened at the Signature Theatre on Tuesday night. Check out our photos from the night including some of your favorite Broadway Black hotshots including Dominique Morisseau, Zainab Jah, Jeremy O. Harris, Ryan Jamaal Swain, & More!

It’s the Golden Age of Hollywood, and aspiring starlet Vera Stark works as a maid to Gloria Mitchell, an aging star grasping at her fading career. Worlds collide when Vera lands a trailblazing role in an antebellum epic starring…her boss. While Vera’s portrayal of a slave turns out to be groundbreaking, decades later scholars and film buffs still grapple with the actress’ legacy in Hollywood and the impact that race had on her controversial career. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s fast-paced, sly satire, directed by Kamilah Forbes, will take you on a seventy-year journey through Vera’s life and the cultural climate that originally shaped her and continues today.