The close of 2022 and the start of the New Year is going to see Bandit Lites reaching an entirely new level of demand across all departments. To meet the expansion, Bandit Lites announces the hiring of industry veteran Paul Strom to the Sales and Integration team.Read More »Bandit Lites Adds Paul Strom to Sales and Integration Team
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SETC and USITT partner each year to bring graduate theater degree programs together with people considering options for interviews, auditions, and information exchange. Connect with more than 50 programs across theater disciplines including Design, Technology, Management, and Acting. Explore your options for advanced education and find your dream grad program in one convenient, affordable location. This year’s event will be happening virtually November 30-December 2.Read More »SETC & USITT’s 9th Annual LiNK – Virtual 2022 Event Set for Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 2022
Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. releases Vectorworks 2023, featuring performance improvements and tools developed to give users more time to design. The 2023 release includes Vectorworks Spotlight, Architect, Landmark, Fundamentals, Braceworks, ConnectCAD, and Vision with the English-language editions of these versions available today.Read More »Vectorworks, Inc. Launches 2023 Version of BIM and CAD Product Line
The largest open-air concerts ever held in Munich, and the largest in Germany this year, took place at the Munich Exhibition Center in August with more than 300,000 fans total attending shows by Andreas Gabalier, Helene Fischer and Robbie Williams. Roland Greil lit the epic shows and massive 150-meter wide stage using a rig that included over 450 Elation Professional luminaires.
BLUMANO, engineering consultancy and advisers for safety and stage machinery design, is proud to announce its expansion with BLUMANO Deutschland. This base, located in the heart of Western Europe, will work closely with BLUMANO’s network of offices in Ireland, the UK, Italy, South Korea, and the Netherlands.Read More »Engineering Consultants BLUMANO Launches in Germany
This year’s winners of the PLASA Awards for Innovation were announced Monday night at the PLASA Show at Olympia London. The Innovation Awards celebrate future-focused tech that improves safety, efficiency and performance through new methods and materials.Read More »PLASA 2022: Innovation Award Winners
Every two years, veteran American rock band 311 celebrates 11 March (3/11) with a massive party-style celebration concert for fans over two nights at the Park Theater’s Park MGM in Las Vegas. The pressure is on LD Bobby Grey, of Notan Creative (and the entire production team), to exceed the excitement of the previous event in this biennial calendar. “We went into this wondering how we could top what we did last time… but ended up taking the whole production to a new level,” recalls Grey. Helping him along the way once again were a slew of GLP’s impression X4 Bar 20 and JDC1, which have frequently been his go-to products in the past.Read More »GLP Lights the Way to Another ‘311 Day’ Party Success in Las Vegas
Azad Jafari joined Beckhoff Automation as I/O Product Manager, a key role that oversees the company’s I/O systems, EtherCAT, and other industrial networking solutions across the U.S. In addition to deep engineering experience with complex automation solutions, Jafari possesses considerable expertise in business development and industry management, particularly in consumer electronics. Based at Beckhoff USA’s Silicon Valley Technical Center in San Jose, he is an impressive addition to the already strong product management team.Read More »Beckhoff USA Names Azad Jafari I/O Product Manager
Beckhoff Automation continues to expand its business development efforts in the U.S. by hiring Buck Tanner and Steve Boelte. The two new Business Development Managers… Read More »Beckhoff USA Adds Buck Tanner, Steve Boelte to Business Development Team
Texas Scenic Company announces that it has agreed to acquire the assets of H&H Specialties. “We’re extremely excited to bring on H&H under the Texas Scenic family of brands,” says Texas Scenic COO Steve Surratt.Read More »Texas Scenic Company Announces Acquisition of H&H Specialties
The new AA3000 series electric cylinders from Beckhoff are ideally suited as direct drives for linear motion applications with high process forces and speeds. The series offers optimal force, dynamics and a compact footprint combined with the advantages of servo technology, such as closed-loop positioning, safe positioning at a standstill and high energy efficiency.Read More »Beckhoff AA3000 Electric Cylinders Provide Precise, Energy-efficient Motion
Following the COVID-19 emergency shift to online teaching, The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) professors Stirling Shelton, Professor of Technical Direction and Steve Miller, Associate Director of Theater Operations knew they didn’t want a repeat of the spring 2020 going into the fall of the 2020-2021 academic year. Their plan? To find a way to work around the obstacles and provide their students with the best learning options imaginable. Joined by fellow faculty, Mark A. Halpin, Associate Professor of Scenic Design and Kathryn M. Miller, Technical Theatre Specialist, the group found a way to offer all their technical classes in-person lab work and skills-building projects.Read More »Perchance to Dream…How CCM Professors Used an Obstacle as the Way to Profit Their Program