I'm emerging
from self-imposed exile thanks to the recent Charles McNulty Critic's Notebook at the LATimes this weekend. He brought together a bunch of small-theater artistic directors for a discussion and got an article out of it. Here's a quote from McNulty--To start, I brought up a recent Arts & Books feature in which Reed Johnson noted that there were no Southern California productions planned of Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes' "A S…