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Illuminating Lincoln Center’s ‘Summer for the City’

This year, New York’s Lincoln Center introduced Summer for the City which consists of more than 300 events from May 14 to Aug. 14 and includes 10 outdoor venues and three indoors. PRG is contracted to support Summer for the City as lighting supplier as well as providing the video package and supervisory crew for the 12-week event. They are working closely with Lighting Designer Andrew Grant.Read More »Illuminating Lincoln Center’s ‘Summer for the City’

‘Stranger Things’: A Rift Appears in NYC

All photos courtesy PRG

Lighting and Video Mapping the Upside Down on the Empire State Building
On an “ominously” cloudy May 26 evening in NYC the world turned upside down as a rift opened on the south side of the Empire State Building. This traffic stopping event was part of NETFLIX’s visually spectacular activation for the debut of Stranger Things 4, Vol. 1 that consisted of a light show and projection mapped ‘opening of rifts’ on 15 landmarks in 14 countries around the world. The rift projection and lighting presentation on the iconic Empire State Building (ESB) was actually a 15-minute show that looped for two hours. The effort to realize this event on the ESB epitomizes the saying ‘The devil is in the details.’ To learn more about those production details PLSN spoke with two of the companies that provided the lighting design and projection mapping solutions—Tactical Manoeuvre, LLC and PRG. They gave us some insight on the technology that captivated fans streaming around the world and New Yorkers who clogged streets and rooftops to glimpse the Upside Down.Read More »‘Stranger Things’: A Rift Appears in NYC

Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” Revives a Broadway Classic with Martin Professional Lighting Solutions

Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster in The Music Man. Photo by Julieta Cervantes

To ensure a visually stunning stage lighting design with true-to-life color, The Music Man on Broadway recently worked with PRG and Martin Professional to deploy an array of Martin lighting solutions, including MAC Viper, MAC Encore Performance, and the brand-new MAC Ultra Performance and Ultra Wash fixtures.Read More »Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” Revives a Broadway Classic with Martin Professional Lighting Solutions

Out of Order, Guy Jacobson’s Upcoming Comedy Film, Shot with Camera Package from PRG

Community building, relationships, and a desire to bring more joy into the world were the fuel for writer/director Guy Jacobson while writing, financing, and filming the upcoming courtroom comedy film, Out of Order. Jacobson, who co-wrote and produced Holly and co-directed the child exploitation documentary Redlight, wrote the script for Out of Order with Megan Freels Johnston.Read More »Out of Order, Guy Jacobson’s Upcoming Comedy Film, Shot with Camera Package from PRG

PRG Sends GLP into Battle for the “Great Fight Night” at Cologne’s Lanxess Arena

Two of the most successful German Twitch streamers, Trymacs and MckyTV, met recently—not for an Esports event, but for a real boxing match. Believing in the motto ‘the more, the merrier’, the two brought in four more Twitch colleagues, who also tested their strength in two preliminary fights. For the Great Fight Night, moderator Steven Gätjen hosted the evening, while the spectacle was rounded off with a live music performance.Read More »PRG Sends GLP into Battle for the “Great Fight Night” at Cologne’s Lanxess Arena

The Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA) Announces their Seventh Annual Meeting

The Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA) announced their seventh annual membership meeting, being held in person for the first time in three years. On June 25 – 27, 2022, TSDCA will hold three days of public panels and discussions regarding sound design and composition in theater at the Marjorie Barrick Museum Of Art on the campus of University Of Las Vegas – Nevada. All events are free and open to TSDCA members as well as the general public. All events will also be available to stream online by registering at www.tsdca.org.Read More »The Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA) Announces their Seventh Annual Meeting

PRG Opens Starwood Rehearsals in Nashville

Production Resource Group, LLC (PRG), a leading provider of production solutions for entertainment and live events producers, announces the opening of Starwood Rehearsals, a new concept in rehearsal spaces serving Nashville music artists preparing for tour. The Starwood Rehearsals space is a blank slate, allowing for any type of production setup. However, given its location at PRG’s Super Depot in LaVergne, TN, it provides clients with direct access to the entire suite of PRG equipment and expertise.

Production teams have complete privacy at Starwood Rehearsals with exclusive use of the space and the resources to run through their projects from planning to show day. The new, climate controlled 10,000 square foot facility, boasts a 100′ by 100′ rehearsal space, dressing rooms, a green room, board rooms, production offices, and a gallery viewing space. Other venue features include:

  • Two 400A three-phase Camlock AC Services
  • 50,000-pound distributed rigging capacity
  • Multiple loading docks and drive-up ramps available
  • Four individual dressing rooms/offices with isolated HVAC units from main room
  • Private bathrooms
  • 24/7 secure access
  • Secure bus parking and power available
  • 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. load in / load out access
  • After-hours access available with advance notice
  • Dedicated artist parking and private entrance

“With so much pent-up demand for the return of concert touring, artists and their management are experiencing a scarcity of suitable rehearsal facilities. With Starwood Rehearsals, we’re rounding out our service offering by answering that need,” said Randy Hutson, CEO of PRG Music.

From 1986 to 2006, the Starwood Amphitheatre was an outdoor music venue just five miles from PRG’s current facility. The Starwood Rehearsals name serves as a homage to Nashville’s local culture, the rich history of concert touring, and the iconic artists and their production teams who put on shows at the venue.

PRG quietly opened Starwood Rehearsals this spring, hosting several musicians and groups including Dan + Shay, Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line, and Leon Bridges. Demonstrating its flexibility, the space was even used by a corporation to film a video segment for an event.

Further information from PRG: https://www.prg.com/page/nash-rehearsal

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Slide Show: PRG at Coachella 2022

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival returned to Indio, CA for two weekends in April, with close to 125,000 attending for each of the six music-packed days. PRG provided lighting and video for the main stage, including 1,180 active tiles of ROE Visual Carbon CB8. Click below for more info and photos.

‘A Strange Loop’ Design Team Shares Thoughts on Solutions Provided by PRG

From its world premiere off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons to a pre-Broadway run at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, the Pulitzer Prize winning musical, A Strange Loop, has now arrived on Broadway, and garnered 11 Tony nominations. PRG worked with the Tony-nominated creative team every step of the journey. Sharing their insights, designers Arnulfo Maldonado, Jen Schriever, and Drew Levy tell us how PRG’s solutions helped realize their designs.