‘SILVER LININGS’

To see the real Ted Tally, you’ll have to go to Japan where the Mark Taper Forum will soon be touring Tally’s piercing “Terra Nova.” To see another Ted Tally, you need only go to Upstairs at Leonetti’s in Hollywood. There, for some unfathomable reason, Tally’s nine-skit collection called “Silver Linings” is open to the public under Mary Pat Gleason’s direction.

James Cubby, David Kroll and Michaeleen Stoddard work their uninspired way through material that is so predictable, so empty-headed and lead-footed that the Groundlings wouldn’t allow any of it into their Sunday program. A sample: in “I Don’t Know Much About Heart, But I Know What I Lack,” (yes, the actual title) Kroll falls over dead in an art gallery, and Cubby’s art critic and Stoddard’s pretentious gallery hopper think that he’s one of the works on display. They fall in love. Blackout.

It’s shameful that even $5 is the admission for this slap-dash, amateur workshop affair.

Performances at 6526 Sunset Blvd. on Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m. through May 23. Tickets: (213) 650-8410 or (818) 368-8634.