The Lumineers’ “Brightside” tour brings a production family back together with Tour Director Sara Full, Designers Sooner Routhier and Robert Long of SRae Productions and Lighting Director Ian Haslauer. The show is triumph of lighting, video, and automation.
TDF, the not-for-profit service organization for the performing arts, proudly announced recently the 2022 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awardees: Fred Voelpel, Eugene Lee, Dede Ayite, Michael Curry, and Caroline F. Siedle.
The show ¡Hasta que se nos hizo! was presented in June at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City where renowned Mexican singers Lucero and Manuel Mijares delighted the audience with a litany of hits from more than 40 years in the entertainment industry. Axel Rebollo, in charge of lighting and production design for the show, used Elation Professional’s 51,000-lumen Artiste Mondrian™ LED profile FX moving head, along with Chorus Line 16™ and Protron 3K Color™, to highlight the set. He ran the show using an NX2™ console by Obsidian Control Systems.Read More »LD Axel Rebollo Lights Mexican Singers Lucero and Mijares at Mexico City’s Auditorio Nacional
The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 2022 Global Stadium Tour has been packing large venues on both sides of the Atlantic this year, with plans to continue to Australia and New Zealand in early 2023. Premier Global Production has been supporting the tour with 250 Chauvet Professional fixtures.
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
Mexican band Grupo Firme brought the party to U.S. stadiums this summer with their “Enfiestados y Amanecidos” tour, with 3G Productions supplying lighting, video, audio and rigging equipment. Production Designer Andy Ruiz and Lighting Designer/Tour Operator Arturo Sanchez added a festive touch with Elation Smarty Hybrid and Rayzor 760 moving lights along with Cuepix WW2 blinders.
The largest open-air concerts ever held in Munich, and the largest in Germany this year, took place at the Munich Exhibition Center in August with more than 300,000 fans total attending shows by Andreas Gabalier, Helene Fischer and Robbie Williams. Roland Greil lit the epic shows and massive 150-meter wide stage using a rig that included over 450 Elation Professional luminaires.
The 2022 Creative Emmy Awards were presented the weekend of Sept. 3-4, 2022. PLSN congratulates all those honored with an award.
We list the Lighting and Production Design winning teams.
Peaky Blinders: The Rise Production Team for Peaky Blinders: The Rise Creative Director: Tom Maller Production Design: Rebecca Brower Lighting Design: Terry Cook Sound Design:… Read More »Peaky Blinders: The Rise
It’s been a busy year for lighting and production designer Chris Lisle and his company CLLD. The production design firm recently wrapped up work on Lollapalooza, their sixth major event back to back, where they relied on an Elation-centered rig including Proteus series IP65 luminaires to light Perry’s Stage.
The 94th Oscars® were held on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide. Production designer and creative director David Korins returned to the Oscars, having previously been the designer in 2019, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Lighting designer Robert Dickinson returned for his 33rd Oscars show. During his three-decades long career, he has won 18 Primetime Emmy Awards, including three for Oscars telecasts, and has over 1,500 on-screen television credits.
Here are the winners in the design and technical categories:Read More »Winners of the 94th Annual Academy Awards
We at PLSN send our congratulations to all of the winners of the Oscars at the 2022 Academy Awards. Here are the videos of the acceptance speeches for Greig Fraser, ASC, winner for Cinematography for Dune; Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos, winners for Production Design for Dune. Jenny Beavan, winner for Costume Design for Cruella; and Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram, and Justin Raleigh for Makeup and Hairstyling for The Eyes of Tammy Faye. We congratulate all of the nominees and winners.
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