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Regarding Charles McNulty’s article on L.A. actors taking the stage in N.Y. [“Critic’s Notebook,” May 3]. Why can’t the L.A. Times take a wider look at theater in L.A. or Southern California?

All you guys ever quote are Gil Cates, an established longtime hack, and Michael Ritchie, who has managed to make his politically correct predecessor look like a visionary.

And what successful screen-TV actor would want to risk doing live theater with those lame safety nets? Quality talent shops their next project by how much they respect and can be inspired by the director and that director’s track record. Trust and quality material would draw them. Cates and Ritchie haven’t done their job yet.

Quality is the draw

Stuart Fink

Los Angeles