No. There is [plenty of straight theatre in LA]( http://losangeles.bitter-lemons.com/la-theaters/#sthash.b0ytkIbc.bnHarFoq.dpbs ) and some of it is very good. It’s just that most of it isn’t anything you can make a living at, but is rather done as a means to feed one’s soul as a respite from the Tinseltown rat race. I finally got around to doing a play myself and it felt as if I’d had an artistic blood transfusion.