The Power of Drivel

When I saw the article praising LACMA’s debacle “The Healing Power of Art,” I saw red (“Invoking the Spirit of Laughter,” by Alex Halberstadt, Oct. 5). I was trapped by politeness in the first row at the worst evening I ever have spent at a performance or presentation, until my partner and I, not being able to stand it, rose just a moment before the performance was declared over. Not surprisingly, we saw that almost half the untrapped audience had left.

The single presentations I have seen in each of the first three seasons of this LACMA lecture series have gone from bad to unwatchable. How could such an important institution showcase such abject drivel?

SUZANNE TAYLOR

Los Angeles