Production/Lighting Designers LeRoy Bennett, Roland Greil, Peter Morse, and Charles B “Cosmo” Wilson were recently invited to join the LIT Lighting Design Awards judge’s board for the upcoming 2022 awards.
To provide Grammy-winning hard rock band Halestorm with simple but impactful lighting for their 2022 U.S. tour, Bandit Lites deployed a dynamic rig using Martin… Read More »Halestorm Tear Through Summer Touring Season with Help of Martin Professional
Bad Bunny enjoyed a celebrated sold-out tour earlier this year and is currently repeating the success, this time in stadiums across North and South America… Read More »Travis Shirley Thinks Outside the Box with Proteus Rayzor Blade on Bad Bunny ‘World’s Hottest Tour’
The fifth annual Elements Music and Arts Festival took place at new site in Long Pond, PA, adjacent to the NASCAR Pocono Raceway. Elements drew… Read More »Spencer Lavoie and 4Life Entertainment Transform Elements Festival with Chauvet Professional
Deakin University and Dreamscreen have signed a landmark partnership agreement to significantly improve the nation’s film and entertainment industry. The university has put a large investment in ROE Visual Black Pearl panels and associated equipment from Technical Direction Company (TDC), which marks a coming advanced virtual production facility in Geelong, Australia.Read More »ROE Visual Black Pearl BP2V2 Selected for Virtual Production Studio in Australia
The fast-pace, quick-witted, all-action entertainment of Disney+’s hugely popular High School Musical: The Musical: The Series returned to TV screens for a much-anticipated third season, with producers Skot Bright and Zack Lowenstein asking Hisham Abed to join the production team as director of photography. Shot over four months in the spring, 12 Robe SuperSpikie moving lights were specified by Abed and the producers to help provide flexible and efficient solutions for lighting ‘permanent’ sets in the Burbank, CA, studio where the season was recorded in addition to assorted locations in and around Los Angeles.Read More »Robe SuperSpikies for Disney+’s ‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’
There was great success for the summer tour of Jova Beach Party 2022, which saw the Italian songwriter Lorenzo Cherubini, aka Jovanotti, performing from June… Read More »Ayrton Perseo and Domino Profiles Light Up Jova Beach Party 2022
Lighting a coheadline tour can, at times, be a tricky proposition, especially when one of the acts wants to build its show around a car… Read More »Chauvet Helps Richard Fong Create Distinct Looks for Joywave and iDKhow
Once again, PLSN and FRONT of HOUSE readers will have the opportunity to nominate lighting, staging, video, and audio technologies worthy of an Indispensable Technology “IT” Award.Read More »Parnelli Awards: Indispensable Technology Award Nominations Now Open
Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever, The World Tour implemented a multicamera live production workflow from Blackmagic Design. Video production specialist Vis a Vis, led by Video Director, Stuart Merser, embarked on a yearlong tour spanning 43 dates that included a live performance at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. In addition to the on-stage visuals, Vis A Vis also streamed the singer songwriter’s headline set to the festival’s YouTube channels.Read More »Video Workflow Solutions for Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever, The World Tour
Stage Directions was very sorry to see the severe structural damage that Hurricane Ian wrought on the Venice Theatre in Venice, FL, which has been forced to cease all activities in the wake of the storm. It was reported that all staff and team were safe after the storm. The Venice Theatre is a very active community theater, working with American Association of Community Theatre (AACT) in fact, they recently hosted the AACT WorldFest June 24-26, 2022 and was due to host it for the fifth time in 2024. The Venice Theatre, which operates with a combination of staff and a large number of volunteers, has an operating budget of $4 million.Read More »Venice Theatre in Florida Severely Damaged by Hurricane Ian
Main Light, LLC announces the appointment of Matt Durham as Operations Manager for Main Light South in Nashville. Reporting to Main Light CEO Randy Mullican, Durham will step into the role overseeing the operations of the growing Nashville location for the preeminent dry hire company.Read More »Matt Durham Appointed Operations Manager for Main Light, South