ESTA is seeking passionate, motivated individuals to join its Board of Directors and help guide the association into a future filled with excitement, possibilities, and growth. A number of Board positions are available for the January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2027 term. The nomination deadline is September 9, 2024.
‘The Notebook’, the romance novel-turned-film, has come to Broadway to make a new generation of audiences swoon. For the new musical, Lighting Designer Ben Stanton brought the iconic love story to life on stage in lush, dreamy hues using ETC fixtures and control.
Lighting Designer Lap Chi Chu is back in Los Angeles after the successful Broadway opening of ‘Suffs’ .Chu mixes Broadway with teaching the next generation of lighting designers. He speaks about his recent designs for ‘Suffs’ and Uncle Vanya, teaching, and working with ETC products.
Broadway’s ‘Illinoise’ is an awe-inspiring dance musical derived from the 2006 Sufjan Stevens album of the same name. The four-time Tony nominated show is lit by Lighting Designer Brandon Stirling Baker. Illinoise runs the show on an Eos Ti, programmed by Jeff Englander. Stirling Baker’s joyous lighting design earned him a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut.
In the spring of 2024, the city of Riyadh welcomed Zarqa Al Yamama, the first grand opera in Arabic and first operatic work produced by… Read More »The Modulo Kinetic Media Server Drives Saudi Arabia’s First Opera
When Lighting Designer Amanda Zieve needed a high output luminaire for the newly reimagined Broadway production of The Who’s TOMMY, she knew she wanted excellent colors, a beautiful native white, and a good selection of onboard gobos. That’s why she selected the VL3600 Profile IP luminaire from Vari-Lite, the originators of the modern moving head light fixture and Signify entertainment lighting brand.
The award-winning Opera Baltycka (Baltic Opera) in Gdansk, on Poland’s stunning north coast, has invested in new Robe lighting fixtures with the purchase of 18 TX1 PosiProfiles and four PAINTES which have been installed into its current building.
Designer Mikki Kunttu brought Richard Wagner’s epic ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ to a breathtaking conclusion at the Finnish National Opera with the performance of the monumental, nearly six-hour-long ‘Götterdämmerung’ featuring Claypaky Xtylos, the laser-based beam lighting fixture.
For USITT25, set for Columbus, OH from March 5-8, 2025, USITT wants to spark vibrant dialog among practitioners, educators, and students by offering a wide variety of panels, masterclasses, and more. They are now calling upon designers, technicians, creatives, industry powerhouses, and innovators to submit educational session proposals for presentation. The deadline to submit is July 15, 2024.
The Stage Managers’ Association has announced its annual Del Hughes Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management. The 2024 honorees are Lloyd Davis, Jr., Ed De Shae, and Denise Yaney. In addition, the SMA will honor Mary Hunter with The Founders Award and this year’s Special Recognition Award will shine the spotlight on David J. McGraw and The Stage Manager Survey.
One of Broadway’s most talked-about plays this season is Appropriate, garnering eight Tony nominations and three wins, including Best Revival of a Play. Written by Brandon Jacob-Jenkins, the show is a portrait of a family unraveling in the wake of its patriarch’s death as three siblings begrudgingly reunite to sort through the detritus of their late father’s Arkansas plantation house. Lighting Designer Jane Cox received her first Tony award for her enthralling design that used ETC Source Four LED Series 2 fixtures and was programmed on an Eos Ti by Kelley Shih.Read More »Jane Cox’s Tony Award-winning Lighting Design uses ETC to Illuminate the Darkness of ‘Appropriate’
Robe UK enjoyed a busy, successful, and positive ABTT (Association of British Theatre Technicians) expo, staged at Alexandra Palace in London, where the company presented two dynamic exhibition areas – a stand upstairs in the main hall, together with a large demo area located downstairs in the venue’s Palace Suite. Robe also delivered four presentations that were integral to the ABTT’s extended 2024 seminar and discussion program, which touched on topics related to sustainability and creative lighting.Read More »Robe ABTT 2024