‘New York, New York’ is a big, spectacular Broadway musical with stunning designs that saw Scenic Designer Beowulf Boritt win a Tony Award and Lighting Designer Ken Billington get a Tony nomination. They tell us about how their designs evoke 1940’s New York and interpret it for a musical theater stylized staging.
Riedel Communications announced that Race Of Champions (ROC), a yearly international motorsport event featuring some of the world’s best racing and rally drivers, has now used Riedel’s solutions for over 12 years, beginning with radios and transitioning to intercom communications across departments.Read More »Race Of Champions Gears Up with Riedel MediorNet, Artist and Bolero
Obsidian Control Systems looks forward to welcoming AV, integration, and production professionals to Booth #5845 at the InfoComm 2023 show in Orlando. Showcasing June 14-16 at the Orange County Convention Center will be the latest ONYX software, a new IP65 data distribution range, all new NETRON installation solutions, and more.Read More »InfoComm 2023: Obsidian to Showcase New NETRON Installation Solutions and IP65 Data Distribution Range
Always full of surprises and the unexpected, the 21st Annual Parnelli Awards held on Friday April 14 started out with a big one: Outgoing NAMM CEO/President Joe Lamond was initiated in the Parnelli Hall of Fame. Also getting their due: Roy Lamb (Lifetime Achievement Award), Keny Whitright (Visionary Award), Marty Garcia (Audio Innovator) and more than two dozen others.
As the European festival scene kicked back into action following the upheaval and restrictions of the pandemic, Ayrton teamed up with some established Swiss rental companies to support festivals across the country and showcase some of Ayrton’s latest fixtures. Stagelight AG Showtechnik supplied kit to the largest hip-hop festival in Europe at Frauenfeld, the Gurten Open Air festival in Bern and Schaffhausen’s Stars in Town across July and August.Read More »Ayrton Festival Fun in Switzerland
“My client wanted this to have the look and feel of a quintessential Christmas show.” Every lighting designer can relate to that this time of year. But in Nate Haber’s case, the request was made with a bit of a different twist. Instead of being asked to support standard holiday tunes, his design had to reflect the raw, merciless power of death metal music in a Yuletide setting.Read More »Nate Haber Adds Festive Touch to A Lorna Shore Christmas with CHAUVET Professional
Founded by President and CEO David Siegel in 1982, Westgate Resorts provides a diverse range of vacation and resort experiences across the company’s resorts in Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Missouri, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. From sandy beaches on the Atlantic Ocean to snow-covered Utah mountains, Westgate Resorts enables guests to experience the country’s most desirable vacation destinations. With an organization of this size, it is critical for the company to monitor its business and the company recently deployed a MAXHUB Raptor Series LM120A07 120-inch diagonal integrated LED Wall to help keep tabs on information flow.Read More »MAXHUB’s Raptor Integrated LED Wall Keeps the Information Flowing for Westgate Resorts
Rising artist Riley Clemmons launched her first head-lining tour with a lighting system provided by Bandit Lites. With over 210 million global streams and 50 million YouTube video views since the beginning of her almost decade long career, Clemmons’s soaring vocals and touching lyrics have endeared her to millions of fans around the world. The First Christmas Tour is named for her hit Christmas song.Read More »Riley Clemmons Calls on Bandit Lites for ‘First Christmas Tour’
The holiday spirit is on the road with Mannheim Steamroller, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, The iHeart Radio Jingle Ball, Rockefeller Center’s Plaza, Martina McBride’s The Joy of Christmas and Dave Koz & Friends 25th Anniversary Christmas Tour. Debi Moen lets us know who is doing what and how they are adding sparkle to the season.
The LDI Show returned to Las Vegas after a busy year of live event productions across North America. The aisles were busy with production pros seeking to gear up for another busy year ahead, with exhibitors unveiling as many new products as steadily improving supply chain conditions would permit.
Twenty One Pilots’ “Icy” tour hit the road this summer, offering LD Tyler “Shap” Shapard the chance to produce an elegant and imaginative lighting design. To atmospherically engineer the mood and vibes for each song, he relied on a Solotech-supplied rig that included 80 Robe MegaPointes.
Davy Sherwin, LD for Snow Patrol, was looking to supercharge a festival design that had previously incorporated GLP’s JDC1 hybrid strobes. LCR Lighting in Blackburn, UK provided GLP’s XDC1 IP Hybrid fixtures, which had just made their debut on Ed Sheeran’s “+–=÷x” (“Mathematics”) tour.