McLaren Engineering Group proudly announces that William Gorlin PE, SE, Vice President of Entertainment Engineering, will receive the prestigious Tenth Annual “Backstage Legends and Masters” Award from the Broadway Technical Theatre History Project.Read More »McLaren Engineering’s William Gorlin to be Honored with “Backstage Legends and Masters” Award
You might be excused for thinking that there are few challenges to lighting an orchestra. You would be wrong, according to veteran Lighting Designer Chris Shick. “Orchestral musicians are extremely sensitive – you have to strike the right balance so they can read their music, see the conductor, and not be blinded by front light.” When it was time for his long-time client the Cleveland Orchestra to update their lighting he reached for ETC thanks to their balance of power and artistry.Read More »ETC and a Tale of Two Orchestral Venues
London-based creative agency Treatment Studio has been awarded Media Content Creator of the Year at the 2024 Parnelli Awards for U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere. The 22nd annual Parnelli Awards took place at the Anaheim Convention Center on January 26 during NAMM 2024, recognizing those who demonstrated outstanding work in their fields.Read More »Treatment Studio Named Media Content Creator of the Year at The 2024 Parnelli Awards For ‘U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere’
London’s famous Roundhouse concert and performing arts venue in Camden now has an all Robe moving light rig with a recent investment in 20 ESPRITE luminaires, fitted with the HP (High Performance) LED engine for the highest output and strongest colors. The order was overseen for Robe UK by Curtis Lewis, their business development manager for the London area. These fixtures join 82 existing Robe moving lights at the venue – 42 LEDBeam 100s, 16 DLF Washes, 6 DLX Spots and 6 LEDWash 600s – with the ESPRITES now the primary house rig spot fixtures, and available to all incoming productions. Roundhouse Head of Lighting Steve Royle explained that the new ESPRITES are part of a major technical update and an ongoing sustainability drive to make the Roundhouse as energy efficient as possible.Read More »London’s Roundhouse Rounds off All Robe Moving Light Rig with new ESPRITES
A circus is magic. How else to explain how, in a single afternoon, it can turn even the most serious adult into a child, eyes wide open with wonder, marveling at acts that turn reality on its head. Circus Knie, one of Europe’s oldest and among the world’s most famous circuses has been turning out such moments for over a century. Its just-concluded 2023 season was no exception, as it featured breathtaking acts from dancing horses to motorcycles spinning around in a sphere at high speeds whilst parallel to the ground.Read More »Circus Knie Creates Magic with CHAUVET Professional
Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2024 is now open and set to run for a four-day span from Jan. 30 through Feb. 2, 2024. Along with the largest show floor ever for this milestone 20th anniversary edition of the event, the exhibition is promising the most comprehensive content program to date, with nine conferences covering a wide range of topics critical to the AV and systems integration industry.Read More »ISE 2024 Opens; Show Set for Jan. 30-Feb. 2
The 22nd annual Parnelli Awards welcomed the live entertainment production industry to the sold out dinner event which took place at the Anaheim Convention Center on Friday, January 26 during NAMM 2024 . There was an array of creatives, technicians, as well as manufacturers, vendors, and rental houses present to honor the backstage professionals who worked on some of the biggest concert tours and live events during the past year. This year’s list of nominees were a diverse industry cross section from early career through to time tested veterans, with many of this year’s biggest tours and events represented – Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Luke Combs, P!nk, and U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere.Read More »The 22nd Annual Parnelli Award Winners Presented at Sold-out Event
On Friday, January 26 the ProProduction Sessions at NAMM presented by PLSN & FOH took place at the NAMM 2024 show. There were five great… Read More »That’s a Wrap: The 2024 Timeless ProProduction Sessions
While the whole world joined Prince and partied like it was 1999–or nervously awaiting the global calamity of the much-feared Y2K meltdown of the world’s computer systems–Timeless Communications President Terry Lowe was busy lining up advertisers and reviewing editorial content for the inaugural February 2000 issue of Pro Lights and Staging News, the precursor to today’s PLSN magazine.Read More »Timeless Communications Honored by NAMM for 25-Year Milestone
Max Webster’s intense production of Shakespeare’s bloody, supernatural tragedy, Macbeth, featuring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, opened to fantastic reviews at London’s Donmar Warehouse in December. Played out on Rosanna Vize’s stark, minimalist set, comprising a flat white platform backed by a glass wall that isolates off-stage actors from the action, the audience listens through binaural headphones that catch every nuance of the actors’ speech, drawing them deeper and more intimately into the text—and Macbeth’s mental state.Read More »Bruno Poet Works Magic with Ayrton Khamsin TC for ‘Macbeth’ at London’s Donmar Warehouse
Riverside Theater’s Lighting Supervisor Will Gibbons-Brown recently found himself in the middle of every Lighting Designer’s most commonly recurring nightmare: he had 48 hours to light a musical from scratch. With only two days until previews for the first show of the season, the production suddenly found itself without a lighting designer. With a whole lot of show to light and very little time, High End Systems’ Lonestar came to the rescue in a big way.Read More »Lonestar Saves the Day for Riverside Theater’s Production of ‘Million Dollar Quartet’
“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle,” wrote Walt Whitman. All lightshows are proof of that. But on rare occasions, when the meaning of the moment aligns perfectly with the aesthetics that celebrate it, the “miracle” becomes frozen in time, ensuring that it will always burn brightly in the minds of all who appreciated it.Read More »The Playground Calls on CHAUVET Professional for ‘La Meta’ Design Honoring Daddy Yankee’s Legacy