This site’s still just days old, but Sanaa Lathan, estimable Yale School of Drama grad, has already been mentioned on it a couple of times. Now I see that she’s appearing in the Second Stage production of Lynn Nottage’s new play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, which begins performances tonight. (2st.com for details). Other cast member of note: one of my favorite actors of all time, David Garrison (Groucho in A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine; Snoopy in Snoopy! The Musical; Twelfth Night and Singing Forest at Long Wharf, etc. etc.).
The show’s directed by Jo Bonney, a great and dependable New York director for decades now, whose work Long Wharf theatergoers know from the recent premiere of Darci Picoult’s Lil’s 90th and Yale theatergoers glimpsed years ago through her contributions to the one-man shows of her husband Eric Bogosian. Nottage, of course, is a Yale School of Drama grad, not to mention a Pulitzer Prize winner.