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(2/2/2015)

-Technical Director Killed in Fall in South Carolina

Technical Director Killed in Fall in South Carolina

David Gibson Swain, a technical director at the North Charleston Center for the Performing Arts in North Charleston, South Carolina, died in a fall on January 29, the local newspaper The Post and Courier has reported. ...More

(2/2/2015)

-RC4 Wireless Overcomes Frequency Challenges at Super Bowl XLIX

RC4 Wireless Overcomes Frequency Challenges at Super Bowl XLIX

When it comes to big stages, there are few with as many operational complexities as the annual Super Bowl. Months before knowing which teams will play in the game, teams of production experts are busy planning all of the technical aspects ...More

(2/2/2015)

-Barbizon Charlotte Hosts Eighth Annual Extravaganza at UNCSA

Barbizon Charlotte Hosts Eighth Annual Extravaganza at UNCSA

For the eighth year, Barbizon Lighting Company's Charlotte offices brought together entertainment industry companies to set up for a day of technology at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, ...More

(2/2/2015)

-Robe Takes One Breath with Anna Calvi

Robe Takes One Breath with Anna Calvi

Lighting designer Tom Campbell loves challenges. So, when tasked to imagineer the ambience in a special setting for award-winning singer, writer, and guitarist Anna Calvi's performance with the Heritage Orchestra at St John's Church ...More

(2/2/2015)

-Renkus-Heinz IC Live Solves Intelligibility Issues in Dodge City Cathedral

Renkus-Heinz IC Live Solves Intelligibility Issues in Dodge City Cathedral

Dodge City's Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Dodge City, Kansas, is a stunning architectural achievement that embodies the classic disparity between traditional and contemporary worship. With its soaring ceilings and open, 270 ...More

(2/2/2015)

-Hairel Enterprises Picks Vista Systems' Spyder for Video Projection System in Faith Bible's New Sanctuary

Hairel Enterprises Picks Vista Systems' Spyder for Video Projection System in Faith Bible's New Sanctuary

When Faith Bible Church, a Bible-centered church in The Woodlands, Texas, built a new 900-seat sanctuary, Houston-area AV contractor Hairel Enterprises selected a Vista Systems Spyder X20 0808 as a key component of the new ...More

(2/2/2015)

-Clay Paky Delivers Knockout Lighting for MMA Gala

Clay Paky Delivers Knockout Lighting for MMA Gala

The biggest live event in Polish Mixed Martial Arts history, KSW 29: Reload, took place this month at Krakow Arena in front of over 16,000 audience members, with thousands more around the globe tuning into the live broadcast in pay ...More

(2/2/2015)

-Highland Park Baptist Church Prepares for the Future with Danley Speakers and Ashly Processing and Amps

Highland Park Baptist Church Prepares for the Future with Danley Speakers and Ashly Processing and Amps

As it approached its hundred-year anniversary as a congregation, Highland Park Baptist Church in Columbia, Tennessee sought to revamp its 400-seat sanctuary. It hired Church Interiors of High Point, North Carolina to help design and ...More

(2/2/2015)

-Firehouse Productions Has a Ball with L-Acoustics K1

Firehouse Productions Has a Ball with L-Acoustics K1

Santa Claus came early again last year as the annual iHeartRadio Jingle Ball tour spread its Yuletide rock, pop, and R&B across the United States throughout December. Although the roster of artists appearing on each stop varied from ...More

(2/2/2015)

-High End Systems SHAPESHIFTERs Help Ring in 2015

High End Systems SHAPESHIFTERs Help Ring in 2015

Released last year, High End Systems' SHAPESHIFTER luminaires brought many exciting and beautiful moments to productions throughout 2014. On New Year's Eve 2015, the company says numerous lighting designers and shows relied on ...More

(2/2/2015)

-Green-Go Gets the Seal of Approval from National Theatre, Warsaw

Green-Go Gets the Seal of Approval from National Theatre, Warsaw

The National Theatre in Warsaw is one of the most important theatrical venues in Poland, dating back to the 18th century. So when the theatre decided to upgrade the old stage management system, Green-Go was the intercom system of ...More

(2/2/2015)

-Theatre in Review: Let the Right One In (National Theatre of Scotland/St. Ann's Warehouse)

Theatre in Review: Let the Right One In (National Theatre of Scotland/St. Ann's Warehouse)

It's been a long time since the theatre has produced as fragrant and seductive a flower of evil as Let the Right One In, a romance of adolescence and the undead that fascinates, disturbs, and at least once will have you ...More

(2/2/2015)

-Theatre in Review: The Road to Damascus (The Directors Company/59E59)

Theatre in Review: The Road to Damascus (The Directors Company/59E59)

Tom Dulack's play begins with a terrorist bomb exploding near Rockefeller Center, a discomfiting thought for audiences at nearby 59E59. Nearly a decade and a half after 9/11, the idea of such events is still chilling, but everyone ...More

(1/30/2015)

-PixelFLEX Installs World's First Two-Millimeter Convex LED Video Wall

PixelFLEX Installs World's First Two-Millimeter Convex LED Video Wall

The world's first 2mm convex LED video wall was installed by PixelFLEX in the new VIP Lexus Lounge at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, the company says.
The Lexus Lounge was recently added to Bridgestone Arena to transform ...
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(1/30/2015)

-DWP Live Announced as New d3 Rental Partner in USA

DWP Live Announced as New d3 Rental Partner in USA

DWP Live have focused on projection mapping as a company since 2008, and are now taking the next step by investing in d3 media servers by d3 Technologies. Having worked on large-scale events such as the Superbowl Halftime Show, ...More

(1/30/2015)

-Karamu House's Terrence Spivey to Address The Ground on Which We Stand at USITT 2015

Karamu House's Terrence Spivey to Address The Ground on Which We Stand at USITT 2015

Terrence Spivey, artistic director of Cleveland's Karamu House, the nation's oldest black theatre, will help USITT promote diversity in theatre at USITT 2015 in Cincinnati in March. ...More

(1/30/2015)

-Freeman Audio Visual Vancouver Wins 2015 Consumer Choice Award for AV Services for Second Consecutive Year

Freeman Audio Visual Vancouver Wins 2015 Consumer Choice Award for AV Services for Second Consecutive Year

Freeman Audio Visual Canada announces that it has been selected by Vancouver consumers and business community as the 2015 Consumer Choice Award (CCA) winner in the category of Audio Visual Services for the second year in a row. ...More

(1/30/2015)

-LTM Stages LoadGuard Motor School in Arena and Convention Centre - Liverpool

LTM Stages LoadGuard Motor School in Arena and Convention Centre - Liverpool

Wirral-based Lift Turn Move Ltd. (LTM) has just staged a LoadGuard Training School at the Liverpool Arena and Convention Center. 16 of their clients and a few members of the ACC team travelled from all over the country to attend the ...More

(1/30/2015)

-Dutch Live Solutions Provider Mertens AVR Adds SSL Live to Product Portfolio

Dutch Live Solutions Provider Mertens AVR Adds SSL Live to Product Portfolio

Mertens AVR has purchased an Solid State Logic (SSL) Live. L500 console to serve as the premier mixing solution for its clients. Currently in use for a four-month-long national comedy tour, Mertens' Live console has also been ...More

(1/30/2015)

-Grant and Smith "REACH" for the Stars at Christmas with NEXO and Yamaha

Grant and Smith "REACH" for the Stars at Christmas with NEXO and Yamaha

Christian artists Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith performed "Christmas with Michael W. Smith & Amy Grant" at the Target Center in Minneapolis in early December, and REACH Communications (Champlin, MN), was there to ...More

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