Ace plays race card in 'Meet Vera Stark'
Two years ago, Lynn Nottage won a Pulitzer Prize for "Ruined," a devastating fiction based on horrible stories of sexual mutilation as warfare in Congo. In tone, of course, "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," her screwball comedy about a black actress in Hollywood, is worlds away from the horrors of "Ruined." And yet, Nottage has hardly taken a lazy vacation from revelations about reality.