We take a look at a variety of new products being launched this fall from a range of manufacturers and distributors. This product guide includes new luminaires, control and distribution products, staging, trussing, video, special effects, and other production equipment.
SETC has accomplished the goal it set this summer: to find a creative and dynamic leader who would help the organization move forward with its… Read More »Toni Simmons Henson Selected as SETC’s Next Executive Director
Our annual guide to some of the leading theater schools and training programs educating the next generation of designers, technicians and stagehands across the country.
Berlin band SEEED was busy playing open-air and festival dates in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (including eight concerts in their home town alone) between May and September. LD Timo Martens has been with the 14-piece band for 22 years, and both musicians and crew are like family to him. On the other hand, 16 GLP XDC1 IP Hybrid, the new IP65 rated strobe wash hybrids, with the much-praised RGBL color mixture of the X5 Series, were traveling for the first time.Read More »GLP XDC1 IP Hybrid Allows SEEED to Shine on an Open-Air Stage
A “spirit of joy,” as one critic described it, runs through the music of Marca MP. The California quartet’s lively blend of banda, mariachi,… Read More »Gus Martinez Sets Stage for Marca MP at MGM Grand with Chauvet Professional
One hundred Claypaky Sharpy Plus Aqua fixtures were deployed at the Venetian Arsenal from Aug. 31 to Sept. 10 2022 for the Campari Boat-In Cinema event at the time-honored Venice International Film Festival.Read More »LD Giovanni Pinna Lights up the Campari Boat-in Cinema Event at the Venice Film Festival
This summer’s Pride Parade in Long Beach, CA was accompanied by a two-day, two-stage festival featuring Iggy Azalea, Natalia Jiménez and more. Islay Events lit the performances with an array of fixtures including ADJ Hydro Beam X2 and Focus Spot 4Z moving heads, Jolt 300 washes, and IP65-rated 18P HEX IP LED par fixtures.
When they entered the pastoral grounds of the ÁRKÁD Green Future Festival with its wide open meadows and forested trails on the banks of the… Read More »Chameleon Rental’s Versatile Green Future Festival Rig Features Chauvet Professional
TDF, the not-for-profit service organization for the performing arts, is proud to announce that celebrated costume designer Fred Voelpel and legendary scenic designer Eugene Lee are among the 2022 TDF/Irene Sharaff Award recipients. Although Voelpel passed away in June, he will be honored posthumously with the TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for costume design while Lee will receive The Robert L. B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design. Additionally, costume designer Dede Ayite will receive the TDF/Kitty Leech Young Master Award and visual artist Michael Curry will receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Artisan Award.
The awards ceremony will be presented through the TDF Costume Collection on Friday, October 7 at 6:30 p.m. at The Edison Ballroom. A pre-awards cocktail reception will begin at 5:30 p.m. This year’s TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards ceremony is being generously underwritten by The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund.Read More »2022 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awardees Announced
For the Black Eyed Peas’ performance at the Lokerse Feesten in Belgium, Alain Corthout provided a lively and colorful light show powered by a ChamSys MagicQ MQ250M Stadium Console supplied by Phlippo, Belgium.
Flexibility is a valuable attribute, not only in a lighting rig, but also in the designer who creates it. Cevin Richter offered convincing proof of… Read More »Chauvet Professional Wears Many Hats at M’era Luna Festival
For country star Chase Rice’s show at the Blame My Roots Festival in eastern Ohio this summer, Zakk Bosserman paired his floor package design with an overhead rig provided by Showtime Sound that included Chauvet Professional Maverick MK3 Profile, STRIKE 4 and Rogue R2 Wash fixtures.