An eruption of stories exploded on social media on Oct. 6, 2020 when Eddie Van Halen had lost his battle with cancer. This news about… Read More »Top of the World Tribute: Touring with Eddie Van Halen
LDG’s Steve Brill puts high wire artist Nik Wallenda and an active volcano in the spotlight for dick clark productions. Steve Brill of New York… Read More »Lighting “The Mouth of Hell” on TV
Every year designers, vendors and event producers alike attend the trade shows that show off the latest offerings from every manufacturer. From NAMM to Prolight… Read More »PLSN’s Fall 2020 Product Harvest
Brown Note Provides Complete Production for July Shows Featuring Peekaboo and Dirt Monkey at Mile High Flea Market For two consecutive Thursdays in July, concert… Read More »The Dirty Drive-In
On Saturday, Aug. 22, a three-part concert featuring pop artist Tim Bendzko was held at the Quarterback Immobilien Arena in Leipzig, Germany. The audience members… Read More »Restart-19 Concert: Rocking Out in the Name of Science
Normally at this time of year, we’d be doing features on the winners of the Hometown Heroes, basking those mid-sized regional production companies accolades and… Read More »Hometown Heroes Update: Regional Production Companies Challenged by Disastrous Year
Panasonic Illuminates the Path to a New Universe Imagineers and Panasonic engineers have been working together for many years collaborating on bringing technology and storytelling… Read More »Disney’s Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
LAS VEGAS – In a normal year, PLSN’s May Issue would be packed with news about all the tantalizing products, services and technologies featured at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt and USITT in the U.S. This year those shows were canceled, of course, but product innovation and R&D marches on, so Nook Schoenfeld reached out to manufacturers to find out what they would have been featuring at those shows.
When PLSN debuted 20 years ago, we were in need of a staff photographer to shoot shows. We found a young man out of the… Read More »20 Years of PLSN in Pictures
Roadies of Color United (R.O.C.U.), the social network created by Lance “K.C.” Jackson and Bill Reeves, celebrated their 10-year anniversary by putting on their first… Read More »Roadies of Color United Celebrates 10 Years in Style
NAMM welcomed in a new decade with another tremendous show, with over 115,000 people stopping by the Anaheim Convention Center from Jan 16-19th. The lighting… Read More »NAMM 2020 Show Report
ANAHEIM, CA — The 19th Annual Parnelli Awards, the “Grammys” of the live event Industry, was well on its way to be a record-breaking, talent-heavy,… Read More »19th Annual Parnelli Awards