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January 15, 2013 News & Features » Cover Story

Burning Down the House 

In the wake of an ugly, public divorce with its founding director, can anyone save the Firehouse Theatre?

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The fireman is gone. Though the building that the Firehouse Theatre Project calls home hasn't functioned as a fire station in nearly two decades, a life-sized figure of a fireman stood guard over the theater's lobby for years. He was a…

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