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Robe Gets Magical for Mat Franco Las Vegas Residency

Photo by B-Freed Photography

Award-winning magician Mat Franco’s current Las Vegas residency—Magic Reinvented Nightly—is staged at the Mat Franco Arena at The LINQ Las Vegas Hotel + Experience, and is a fast-and-furious, thrilling show-stopper full of cool tricks and humor…  immersing and delighting fans. Production and Lighting Designer Scott Chmielewski from design studio DMDS7UDIOS was first asked to create a lighting environment for this show in 2020 when it launched. Chmielewski has worked with Creative Director / Producer Brian Burke on top TV shows like American Idol and America’s Got Talent and has crafted his own multidisciplinary lighting aesthetic blending the theatrical with the televisual.Read More »Robe Gets Magical for Mat Franco Las Vegas Residency

Robe Footsies Crack it at Orlando Ballet

As the cornerstone of its 50th Anniversary Season, the Orlando Ballet commissioned a spectacular new production of The Nutcracker, one of the world’s most popular and most performed ballets, which debuted last December. Billed as “bigger, brighter, and full of surprises” as well as the largest ballet ever created by an Orlando-based performing arts organization, the production was staged in Steinmetz Hall at the Dr. Phillips Center for Performing Arts. New choreography, all new sets, costumes, and an updated storyline by Jorden Morris, who also serves as the ballet’s artistic director, brought an exciting edge to a timeless classic, combined with a host of interesting and innovative staging elements including a lighting design by Joseph R. Walls.Read More »Robe Footsies Crack it at Orlando Ballet

Robe FORTES in Heaven

Lighting Designer Mikael Kratt was super happy to be among the first visiting creatives to use the Royal Danish Opera’s new Robe FORTE moving lights in a recent production at the Copenhagen Opera House. This was for Som I Himlen (As It Is in Heaven) a lively and heartwarming musical adaptation directed by Edward af Sillén of a 2004 Swedish movie telling the story of a famous conductor who returns to his small Swedish hometown in the North of the country to retire… and is asked to help with mentoring the school choir.Read More »Robe FORTES in Heaven

Robe Works up a Sweat for Nathaniel Rateliff Show

Popular Americana and R&B singer songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff and his band The Night Sweats played their show-stopping, sold-out annual homecoming holiday concert at the Ball Arena in Denver, CO, in December. It was the second time the annual event – which has been running for some years – was staged at this venue, after moving to the larger space in 2022. The lighting was crafted by Jeremy Roth, who has been Rateliff ’s Production Designer since 2017. He utilized over 100 Robe moving lights – FORTES, Spiiders, and MegaPointes plus a RoboSpot system – to help make it look spectacular and memorable.Read More »Robe Works up a Sweat for Nathaniel Rateliff Show