To Act Is to Showcase
Milton Justice is being extremely unjust when he criticizes actors for using live theater to promote their film and TV careers (Letters, May 30).
Every job an actor has is a showcase for his or her talents and a potential steppingstone to a better job. With so much at stake, how this would diminish the quality of a performance is a mystery to me!
Far from being “the root of all Hollywood theater problems,” the desire to display one’s talents is often the reason plays can be produced at all.
It is not the actors’ fault if a “showcase production” is mediocre or worse--that is the producer’s responsibility.
As a producer, Justice should look to himself if he genuinely wishes to discover the “problem” with Hollywood theater.
MICHAEL DAVID WADLER
Los Angeles
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