Recent content by Chairman Moe

UPDATE: (just riffing for the record.) Good ideas are being offered, both here and from other sources, but I can't get over the issue of stability for tall (8-9 foot platforms, post and beam style). Building upon the flat of the floor, or on a surface flat on the floor, is the most stable and...

Thank you. Another option with considering. Have you built any heavy platforms on that deck, were there any problems you had to overcome?

Thank you. I learned a few things this hour.

Good grief. So, some friends have just repurposed an old school cafeteria, and turned it into the beginnings of a black box theater. The learning curve has been steep. I've been asked to design and build their first true set (they will open with a small, 3 actor show and a few flats and...

Well, things have changed almost over night.I said in a follow-up comment that I "expect no problems" with Little Women. Since then, the state legislature here in West Virginia has sent a bill to the State Senate that, as I read it, would make any production of Hamill's play a crime. Not...

I should explain the last line of my reply above; i. E. “I don’t foresee any problems” with Hamill’s Little Women.I do, in fact, anticipate issues. To counter these, we have removed the children’s theater company from the process. Instead, we partnered with a local adult company and are...

All valid concerns, and I share them, which is why, as part and parcel of any involvement in the production, I asked to be dramaturg, a role I had never played and one that the company had never employed.First thing, I hired a professional race identity counselor/facilitator. Secondly, poured...

A children’s theater production of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” scheduled to be performed in March 2023 was canceled after the Board of First Stage Theater Company got cold feet. The show had been cast and rehearsals were under way.First Stage is located in Huntington, West Virginia and is in its...