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GLP Flies High with Florence and the Machine Supporting LD Andi Watson

Florence and the Machine’s grand world tour, which began late last summer in North America and subsequently spanned shows as far afield as Melbourne and London, will again prove that distance is no barrier as the festival season looms, with imminent outdoor events in Brazil and Europe. Masterminded by a largely new creative team, the lighting is based on an original concept from the highly imaginative Andi Watson, complementing Es Devlin’s set design. However, one long-term Florence collaborator is the show’s Lighting Director, Sam O’Riordan.Read More »GLP Flies High with Florence and the Machine Supporting LD Andi Watson

Top Tours of 2022

“Billboard” magazine recently ranked tours around the world by total ticket sales from November 2021 through October 2022. The Showtime section within PLSN’s January 2023 issue focuses on the lighting, staging and video production teams and equipment supporting these tours.

More than 450 Proteus Workhorses Light The Weeknd’s ‘After Hours til Dawn’ Stadium Tour

The Weeknd 2022 tour. All photos by Todd Kaplan

Big concert tours were back in a big way this past summer and The Weeknd’s ambitious “After Hours til Dawn” outing is perhaps the best example. Lighting designer Jason Baeri is using over 450 Elation Proteus Hybrid™ and Proteus Excalibur™ moving head luminaires as workhorse fixtures on the tour, an elaborate, visually striking show that has been selling out major stadiums across North America since July. The first leg of the all-stadium tour kicked off on July 14 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia and concludes on November 27 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. The tour is also scheduled to visit South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia.

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UAE 50th National Day Celebration Includes Elation Proteus Fixtures from PRG

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Lighting Designer Bruno Poet recently turned to Elation Professional’s Proteus™ line of IP65 luminaires to light the UAE’s 50th National Day Celebration in December 2021, a breathtaking and technically demanding show that beautifully chronicled the country’s unique history and hopes for the future.Read More »UAE 50th National Day Celebration Includes Elation Proteus Fixtures from PRG

Julie Taymors A Midsummer Night’s Dream Gets AV Support from WorldStage.

Julie Taymor’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Gets AV Support from WorldStage

BROOKLYN, NY — There’s only a judicious amount of character flying in Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the first production to be staged in the compact but versatile Polonsky Shakespeare Center, which opened here last fall, and, as Taymor wryly noted in an interview in The New York Times, the odds of production snags arising from hastily updated scripts were even less remote. Even so, the production, with set design by Es Devlin, had its own unique challenges and complexities. WorldStage provided a video assist.