Students perform scenes from By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, by Lynn Nottage to showcase character development, character arcs, and intermediate skills of performance. The students selected the play after reading various plays by Contemporary playwrights. In By the Way, Meet Vera Stark “Lynn Nottage draws upon the screwball films of the 1930s to take a funny and irreverent look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood. BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK is a seventy-year journey through the life of Vera Stark” (Dramatists.com).