Grading Sullivan

An “F” to Dan Sullivan for his comment that Los Angeles actors need to “bring in a Brit who likes American actors, and will teach them how to speak Shakespeare in American” (“L.A. Theater: A Report Card,” April 9).

In the years that Sullivan chronicles, there have been fine productions of “Othello” at the Ahmanson, “Hamlet” at Theatre Exchange, and “Richard II” at the Theatricum Botannicum, to name but a few. Does Sullivan think that any of these splendid mountings would be improved by an English accent?

JAYNE SIMON

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