“If TV and movie actors have such an affinity for the stage — in New York right now, Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Jeremy Irons, Geoffrey Rush and Marcia Gay Harden are flaunting their Oscar-validated skills alongside such multiple Emmy winners as James Gandolfini and Allison Janney — why don’t more of the L.A.-based among them take advantage of the great opportunities in their own backyard?”