TICKETS:
$150 PER PERSON. This private dinner event has room for only 30 guests.
  
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
6:00PM - Hors d'oeuvres and open bar with wines from Cline Cellars
6:45PM - Casual, elegant buffet dinner at the Geffen
8:00PM - Public Performance of BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK.
  
We are incredibly excited about this unique opportunity to partner with the Geffen Playhouse. You will enjoy passed hors d’oeuvres, a casual, elegant buffet dinner, and an open bar with delicious wines provided by Cline Cellars exclusively for LDTE guests. After dinner - just steps away - you'll enter the theatre and be treated to the West Coast premiere of Lynn Nottage's BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK.
  
What a great opportunity dine, enjoy delicious wines & support Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble with your friends!
  
All proceeds will benefit Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble and its BREAKING GROUND/New Play Workshop . This is a five day workshop where playwright, director, dramaturg and actors collaborate and create a completely new work. It culminates in two public presentations.
  
This partnership represents an ongoing effort in the Los Angeles theatre community to engage and support each other in bringing our shared audiences the gift of live theatre.
  
BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK
by LYNN NOTTAGE
directed by JO BONNEY
  
starring
Sanaa Lathan
Kevin Carroll
Merle Dandridge
Spencer Garret
Amanda Detmer
Kimberly Hebert Gregory
Mather Zickel
  
Scenic Designer, Neil Patel
Costume Designer, ESosa
Lighting Designer, Jeff Croiter
Sound Designer, John Gromada
Projection Designer, Shawn Sagady
Production Stage Manager, Mary Michele Miner
Assistant Stage Manager, Susie Walsh
  
ABOUT THE PLAY:
It’s Hollywood’s heyday and the streets of Los Angeles are filled with glitz, glamour and the chance at stardom — that is as long as you have the “right” look. But when former maid Vera Stark lands a groundbreaking role in a new Southern epic, she turns Hollywood on its head and paves the way for future generations of black actresses. More than five decades later, Vera’s influence on race, film and feminism has seeped its way into pop-culture. But who is the real Vera Stark? Part comedy and part commentary, Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s West Coast premiere uses today’s fascination with celebrity and controversy to get to the truth behind the legend.
  
A Recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award
  
Photo credit: Sanaa Lathan in BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK. Photo by Joan Marcus.