By Brandon Weigel
After several years sitting dormant, the theater building on W. 25th Street in Old Goucher will soon serve two purposes.
During the day, it will be a fully functional research lab for Figure 53, a local software design company whose program QLab allows users to run audio, lights and projections for live performances on one platform.
At night, the space will become a black-box theater with seating for about 100, giving local theater companies a venue to re-mount productions.
Organizers hope to have the space, named the Voxel, up and running by 2019.
For Figure 53, the growth and development of QLab, which has been used in professional theater, from the Broadway hit “Hamilton” to local theaters such as Center Stage and Everyman Theatre, created the need for a testing ground to try out new features.
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