Today’s theater of war

I found Don Shirley’s article “Lest the Country Look Away, Playwrights Launch a Fusillade of Dramas About the War in Iraq” [Oct. 9] extremely engrossing. As a subscriber to the Taper, the Geffen Playhouse and other L.A. venues, I have seen several of the plays he described. The public needs to see more shows such as “Stuff Happens” and “Nine Parts of Desire.”

I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of “Lewis and Clark ... ,” “The God of Hell” and, hopefully, “The Poor Itch.” I take issue with Rocco Landesman’s comment that “a Broadway audience comes for entertainment, not to be lectured.” The antiwar plays are not lecturing but are presenting the world in which we live in terms everyone can relate to.

IRA M. LANDIS

Los Angeles