Two weeks ago Boston Globe theater critic Don Aucoin submited this piece:

Theater audiences are growing older

Next time you’re in a theater in Boston – or down on the Cape, or out in the Berkshires, or on Broadway, or pretty much anywhere, really – take a look around at the audience. Chances are you’ll notice something missing: young people.

What you’re likely to see instead is wave upon wave of gray hair. Most of the seats will be occupied by baby boomers and those of the generation born around the time of World War II. Thirtysomethings will be scarce; twentysomethings will be even scarcer. And teenagers? Don’t ask.

Or better yet: Do. Why don’t more young people go to the theater?

That article generated a number of letters to the arts editor, including this one published in yesterday’s Globe:

My patrons are slowly dying off, moving away, or becoming too old or frail to attend the theater! A question I ask myself is, how do I change my programming to attract younger audiences, “The Debt Generation”? Do they care about live theater? Or would they rather spend $100 on a single ticket to see Lady Gaga and Lady Antebellum?

ROY JACOBS

Marketing representative, Leach Theatre,

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Rolla, Mo.

Mr. Jacobs might want to check out the excellent Canadian TV series Slings and Arrows, which chronicled the misadventures of the New Burbage Shakespeare Festival and addressed just that problem in Season 2.

The results are, well, Shakespearean.

Get thee to a DVD.