The Backseat Lovers are on the road with an innovative and interesting production and lighting design created by Meagan Metcalf, who has been working with the super-hot indie rockers from Utah since 2022, with 22 Robe ESPRITES and 24 Tetra2 moving lights at the heart of the lighting rig.Read More »Robe Spills onto Backseat Lovers Tour
The deepest purpose of art is “not to convey, but to evoke,” the great novelist Jerzy Kosinski once observed. Clifford Michael Spulock demonstrated the power of this principle when lighting the Slow Burn Theatre Company’s production of Newsies earlier this summer at the Broward Center.Read More »CHAUVET Professional Helps Clifford Michael Spulock Evoke Mood of ‘Newsies’
In the early summer of 2023 Herbert Grönemeyer was persuaded to return to Germany’s arenas, having released his latest (and 17th) album Das ist los back in March. Much can be said about this man: his distinctive voice, his emotional, always fundamentally optimistic lyrics, his social commitment. Whoever attends Grönemeyer’s concerts quickly realizes they are in the presence of an exceptional artist. His fans already know that, of course. And so, at 67 years old, Herbert Grönemeyer hops and prances about the stage and gives tens of thousands of fans two hours of bliss, night after night.Read More »More Than 220 GLP Fixtures in Use on Herbert Grönemeyer’s Das ist los Arena Tour
Harvest Church held its annual Harvest Crusade evangelistic outreach July 1-2 at a packed Honda Center in Anaheim, CA, and Elation Artiste series lights played a key role in creating a revival-like atmosphere for the 32,000 live attendees while helping to captivate over 200,000 who tuned in online. This was Harvest’s first-ever crusade at the Honda Center where attendees also enjoyed two nights of performances from award-winning Christian artists.Read More »Inspiring Illumination: Elation Artiste™ Lights Harvest Crusade in Southern California
CHAUVET recently introduced two new luminaires—Maverick Force 3 Profile and Force 2 BeamWash. The latest additions to CHAUVET Professional’s Force series, the two feature-rich fixtures… Read More »CHAUVET Professional: New Maverick Force 3 Profile and Force 2 BeamWash
K&M: Crank Up Stands, plus info on other new products from ADJ, City Theatrical, Claypaky, Martin/Harman, Pangolin, Wenger and Whirlwind
‘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.
Read More »Prolights Makes an Impact at Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023
With a wealth of platinum and gold records to his name, Italian singer-songwriter and ‘father of Italian blues’, Zucchero Fornaciari, affectionately known as Diavolo in R.E., celebrates his 40-year career this year with his World Wild Tour 2023. The tour kicked off in New Zealand in April, before returning to Zucchero’s hometown of Reggio Emilia on the 9th and 10th of April where he played with huge success to capacity crowds at the RCF Arena, formerly known as Campovolo.Read More »Ayrton Cobra Hits the Sweet Spot for Zucchero’s World Wild Tour 2023 at Campovolo
Debi Moen brings us the who’s doing what, where for tours and festivals as well as a bit on the design work of the Bono & Edge streaming documentary.
Two new high definition zoom lens options are now available for ADJ’s popular Encore Profile Pro WW and Encore Profile Pro Color ellipsoidal theatrical lighting fixtures. The new EP LENS 2550Z (25 – 50°) and EP LENS 1530Z (15 – 30°) make these already versatile fixtures even more convenient to use, allowing for field angle adjustments to be made quickly and easily without the need to swap lens assemblies.Read More »ADJ Expands Encore Profile Pro Series with Two New Zoom Lens Options
Robe moving lights were in action across multiple stages at the 2023 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, including in three key ‘creative’ areas of the massive site at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset in the UK. These were the spectacular fire-breathing Arcadia Spider 360-degree arena, the eclectic, fabulous and funky Park Stage, one of the most popular Glasto zones, and the BBC Introducing stage which showcases some of the hottest rising music stars and some cool unique pop-up performances.Read More »Robe Catches the Spirit of Glastonbury 2023