Los Angeles is a hive of “almost 100 self-sustaining, not-for-profit, professional theater ensembles.” It’s a theatre community quite unlike that anywhere else, a decidedly un-New York. “These largely volunteer (often dues-based) organizations are quasi families — which are sometimes authoritarian, sometimes collaborative, sometimes bickering, often leaving, just as often returning — homes to thousands of actors lured by and often working in Hollywood while sustaining a legit-stage subculture.”