A Midsummer Night’s Dream – one of Shakespeare’s most enduring, timeless, and intricately cerebral comedies – is always a delight to light, and Singapore-based Lighting Designer Gabriel Chan relished this task for the 2023 Shakespeare in The Park (SITP) version of this magical and mischievous work. Read More »Astera Dreams in the Park
“If you put out quality music, you’re always going to be in a good place.” Romeo Santos told an interviewer. This summer, the Bronx-born “King of Bachata” was indeed in a very good place musically, and the sold-out crowd at O2 Arena couldn’t have been happier, as he transformed the iconic venue into a vibrant Latin music club with his stellar performance. The show was the only London stop in Santos’ Vol. 3 World Tour. Adding to the dynamic vibe that resonated throughout the arena was a collection of 84 CHAUVET Professional fixtures.Read More »Bigabox Productions Reflects Romeo Santos Magic at O2 with CHAUVET Professional and DMX Productions
Experienced Lighting Designer Anthony Hazelden has made the journey from classic theatre to high-octane dance raves effortlessly, his generic stage lighting of yesteryear now replaced by next generation hybrid LED strobes, including GLP’s new JDC Line 1000. For a recent EDM concert within Cardiff Castle he not only provided a cutting-edge floor package for headliner Fisher, for whom he was LD, but the generic house rig for the support acts. This included Luther star Idris Elba and Arielle Free. Hazelden had known most of these artists from working with them on other projects around the world and had known the production manager for the Cardiff Castle show, James Dutton, from High Scream Productions in Ibiza.Read More »GLP JDC Lines Bring Fisher’s Cardiff Castle EDM Extravaganza to Life
A largely Robe lighting rig was specified and used by leading Slovenian Lighting Designer Crt Birsa from design studio Blackout for Dubioza Kolektiv’s closing set of the 2023 Velenje Summer Splash open air festival, staged at the picturesque lakeshore location in Velenje, Slovenia. Dubioza Kolektiv is one of several artists that Birsa and his team from Blackout are lighting this summer as they tour Europe and further afield, all with an element of Robe on their riders.Read More »Robe Makes a Splash with Dubioza Kolektiv
“We are all voyeurs to some extent when we see an intimate film,” said director Martin Scorsese. The stage production Le Mime et l’Etoile at Puy du Fou in Les Epesses, France, takes matters to another level, as the audience is not only drawn into an intimate story, but also gets to view it through the lens of a film being made in the earliest days of cinema.Read More »Maxime Chotard Lights Historical Journey in ‘Le Mime et l’Étoile’ with CHAUVET Professional
Master Tour launched its online official venue tech pack as part of its staged release of Master Tour Venue. This critical record will provide touring production teams online access to the latest verified information for all venue-related production details.Read More »Master Tour Launches Industry-First Standardized Tech Packs for Venues
Lighting Designer Joel Reiff has tapped 28 Ayrton Domino Profiles as his “workhorse” fixture for Counting Crows’ 56-date summer tour across the country, which he programmed on a grandMA3 console. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton fixtures and MA lighting products in North America. The band, with guests Dashboard Confessional, kicked off their “Banshee Season Tour” in June in Omaha and will wrap with a show at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado on September 25. Upstaging provided the Dominos and grandMA3 consoles for the tour.Read More »Ayrton Dominos and grandMA3 Hit the Road with Counting Crows’ Summer ‘Banshee Season Tour’
Obsidian Control Systems invites lighting control professionals to Stand D50 September 3-5 at the 2023 PLASA show at Olympia in West London. Sample a host of new innovations including the modular NX1 lighting console and latest ONYX software, as well as the world’s first IP65 data distribution range and other NETRON data distribution devices. Read More »Modular NX1™, New NETRON Devices Highlight PLASA Offerings for Obsidian Control Systems
Sometimes, less is indeed more. Tyler Veneziano has no problem with that theory. The talented designer is a huge fan of the CHAUVET Professional Rogue R1 FX-B with its five individually controlled RGBW moving heads. He particularly likes the fixture’s infinite pan and tilt. But when lighting multi-platinum rockers Breaking Benjamin on their North American tour earlier this summer, Veneziano stopped himself from using this feature at points during the band’s 90-minute, 17-song set. “I love the infinite pan and tilt, but I didn’t want to over-use it and become predictable,” he explained. “My plan was to save theses looks for key moments to maximize their impact.”Read More »Tyler Veneziano Mixes Subtlety and Color for Breaking Benjamin with CHAUVET Professional
The Feest in Het Park festival (AKA ‘Party In The Park’) is an annual weekend-long celebration hosted in the Reeshofpark, a large public park situated in the suburbs of the Netherlands city of Tilburg. Across two separate stages, more than 70 ADJ fixtures were supplied for this year’s festival by Ultrasound Productions, which utilized both moving heads and static washes to illuminate the performance spaces with vibrant colors and fill the sky above the park with impressive aerial effects.Read More »ADJ Lighting Gets the Party Started at Feest in Het Park Festival
In April, KBS (the Korean Broadcasting System), the national broadcaster of South Korea, has successfully launched its next-generation XR Studio. KBS’s trusted partner, Ark Ventures, chose ROE Visual and Brompton Technology to cater for KBS’s high standards. KBS has been a reliable and trend-setting public media since its establishment in 1927. Seeing the growing XR impact in the global broadcasting industry, KBS decided to create its own and pioneer the way in South Korea. Therefore, found Ark Ventures, Korea’s leading XR and Virtual Production consultant, as their trusted partner.
Read More »ROE Visual Selected for KBS’s 1st XR Studio
With offices in Chicago, Nashville and Las Vegas, full-service provider OSA International carries a vast inventory of cutting-edge show production solutions. One of the most recent acquisitions from its Las Vegas HQ has been the first tranche of 100 FUSION X-PAR 12Z, affectionately known as the ‘Oom-Par’ in recognition of its German manufacture. Powered by a 120W RGBL light source and Fresnel optic, other than its sheer power and color palette the IP65 rated product has a remarkable 8.5° to 55° wide zoom.Read More »OSA Invests Heavily in GLP FUSION X-PAR 12Z