The post. If you've spent any time in Off-Off-Broadway theaters, you know what we're talking about. The post. The one that's holding up the building, sure, but the one right there on the stage, disrupting sight lines and blocking. Do directing MFA programs teach how to deal with it? They damn well should, because so many plays happen in these converted, post-filled spaces. But one long-standing downtown theater, in a feat of reverse engineering, finally managed to get rid of theirs, and now... More »
