Turning up the heat

KATHLEEN TURNER claims she’s “never really seen an extraordinary piece of theater” in Los Angeles and hopes that L.A. audiences will finally be able to “see the quality of what theater can be” when she, incidentally, appears in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” at the Ahmanson Theatre [“No Fear in the Face of ‘Woolf’ ” Feb. 4]. She isn’t satisfied with the site of the production either, describing the celebrated theater as being “like an airplane hangar or something.”

Dear Ms. Turner, I and many others in Los Angeles know “what theater can be” from experiencing extraordinary manifestations of it year after year in our city (productions that have gone on to become long-running Broadway hits). I, for one, shall decline your grandiose -- and insulting -- invitation to see what you fatuously claim is your contribution to “quality” in our city.

JOHN RECHY

Los Angeles

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Rechy wrote “City of Night,” among other novels.