NOT BY GEORGE

With reference to “Forget Jelly, George Is Jammin’ ” (by Patrick Pacheco, Nov. 20) and “It’s a Public With a Punch” (by Laurie Winer, Nov. 27), I would like to correct a now-common misconception.

While George C. Wolfe is indeed a writer and a director, he did not direct the stage production of his play “The Colored Museum” at New York’s Public Theater in 1986. The director was L. Kenneth Richardson, then-artistic director of the Crossroads Theatre Company in New Jersey, where the play had its world premiere under Richardson’s direction. He then directed the play at the Mark Taper Forum in 1988, and that critically acclaimed production moved to the Westwood Playhouse for an extended run.

Richardson is currently a member of the Taper artistic staff.

KEN WERTHER

Press Associate

The Mark Taper Forum

Los Angeles