Indominable hope in the face of tragedy takes center stage in Mary Jane on Broadway. The intimate play revolves around Rachel McAdams as the single mother of a critically ill toddler and the women in her orbit that form her support system. The play was delicately lit by Ben Stanton using Source Four fixtures, programmed on an Eos Ti.
A precarious dance between true love and tragic addiction took center stage in ‘Days of Wine and Roses’ on Broadway. The dark, jazzy musical, based on a 1962 film of the same name, was staged at the legendary Studio 54 theatre. The show was lit to moody perfection with ETC fixtures by Designer Ben Stanton and run on an ETC Apex programmed by Alex Fogel.
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.
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’
‘The Outsiders’ has received 12 Tony nominations, not only for its impressive adaptation from paper to stage but also for its powerful visual design elements. PRG is proud to have provided this new musical with audio, lighting, and projection technology. Lighting Designer Brian MacDevitt and Projection Designer Hana S. Kim deliver a genuinely immersive experience for audience members throughout the theatre.
Here’s a video from the upcoming Broadway musical, The Great Gatsby with Lighting Designer Cory Pattak talking about the lighting for this production. The Great… Read More »Video of the Week: LD Cory Pattak on his Design for Broadway’s ‘The Great Gatsby’
Broadway’s Here Lies Love is a groundbreaking musical about former Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos’ astonishing rise to power and subsequent fall at the hands… Read More »Korins and Nigrini reimagine the Broadway Theatre for ‘Here Lies Love’
An estimated 250,000 people turned up for Nashville’s Let Freedom Sing! 4th of July Celebration. Bandit Lites worked with Chris Lisle of Chris Lisle Lighting Design to provide the lighting for both The Jack Daniel’s Broadway Stage as well as the Ascend Amphitheatre.Read More »Bandit Lights Up Nashville’s Fourth of July Celebration
July 20, 2023 – The Broadway League and Buena Vista Theatrical d/b/a/ Disney Theatrical and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees announced they have reached a tentative agreement for the “Pink Contract,” pending ratification by the bargaining unit. The respective parties will inform their members of the details of this agreement in the coming days.
IATSE had held a strike-authorization vote on Wednesday, July 19, 2023.Read More »IATSE, The Broadway League, Disney Theatrical Reach Tentative Agreement Pending Ratification on Pink Contract
The Shubert Organization has chosen six aspiring theatre professionals for its second Shubert Organization Internship Program cohort, beginning July 10. The program aims to provide a general knowledge base of theatre administration and operations and offers hands-on project involvement as Shubert prepares for the 2023-2024 theatre season.Read More »Shubert Organization Announces 2023 Internship Program Participants
‘New York, New York’ is a big, spectacular Broadway musical with stunning designs that saw Scenic Designer Beowulf Boritt win a Tony Award and Lighting Designer Ken Billington get a Tony nomination. They tell us about how their designs evoke 1940’s New York and interpret it for a musical theater stylized staging.
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