From the article:
"In "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," playwright Lynn Nottage, a 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for "Ruined," again turns her incisive eye on the objectification of African-American women. The West Coast premiere of her 2011 satire of racial identity in the Hollywood studio system is an often enjoyable fusion of wry comedy and gritty comment, at least until polemic overtakes the proceedings."