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  Clay Paky Helps Commemorate 25th Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall
Lighting designer Björn Hermann created a spectacular light show at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to launch a night of celebrations commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Choosing to use a mix of Clay Paky SuperSharpy ...
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Hawthorn Names DPA as Its Microphone Brand of Choice
Hawthorn, the U.K.'s largest independent supplier of technical production services, has named DPA Microphones as its primary mic brand. Established in 1987, Hawthorn employs over 120 staff from offices around the U.K. and ...
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DiGiCo's Christmas Cheer Now Available on Facebook
DiGiCo is inviting its customer to get some audio cheer with its Twelve Days of Christmas promotion. For the chance to win one of 12 prizes, visit DiGiCo's Facebook page at the URL listed below.
It starts on December and finishes ...
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PLASA Announces 2014 Election Results
PLASA's month-long elections to determine positions on its European and North American Regional Boards, together with its central Governing Body, concluded at midnight on Wednesday, November 19. Companies and individuals from PLASA' ...
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Robe Makes Some Noise at LDI 2014
Energy levels were pumped and spirits high on the Robe Lighting booth throughout the 2014 LDI Expo in Las Vegas--which saw three days of great interest in the new products, the company says, especially the new Bright Multi ...
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Clay Paky Pushes the Boundaries on Imogen Heap
For this summer's Camden Roundhouse's Reverb festival, singer-songwriter Imogen Heap curated four days of events, which culminated in a headline show from Heap herself. As per the experimental theme of the festival, twelve Clay ...
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XL Video Supplies Camera Package for Fat Freddy's Drop at Ally Pall
When New Zealand band Fat Freddy's Drop confirmed their headlining show at London's Alexandra Palace, they contacted XL Video to supply live video production for the sold-out one-off gig.
The Alexandra Palace show, in ...
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Rose Brand Awards $10,000 Custom Main Stage Curtain to Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School in Video Contest
Brooklyn Theatre Arts HS wins the new custom main stage curtain valued at up to $10,000 in The Rose Brand "Rags To Riches" video contest. The contest invited any organization with a stage to send in a creative video ...
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Chauvet Professional Fixtures Go to the Core for Killswitch Engage
With its powerful crushing riffs, double bass drum patterns and growling vocals, the music of the Grammy-nominated Killswitch Engage is seriously and unmistakably intense. Any light show at a concert by these metalcore icons had better ...
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Argentina's TyC Sports Relies on Variety of FOR-A Switchers for its Sports Production
FOR-A announces that Argentine broadcast sports production company Torneos y Competencias has been using a number of its video production switchers. A longtime user of FOR-A equipment, the sports channel's most recent ...
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ETC Keeps on Giving
On the floor of the LDI Show, Fred Foster, CEO of ETC, presented a check for $24,909.25 for Behind the Scenes to Rick Rudolph and Mark Heiser, the chair and treasurer of the PLASA Foundation
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Chauvet Professional Helps Transform Historic "Scopes Trial Courthouse" For Tokens Special
Greg Persinger of Vivid Illumination has been involved in quite a few lighting projects over the past 20 years, but it's safe to say that none were quite like his recent work at the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee ...
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Theatre in Review: Our Lady of Kibeho (Signature Theatre)
Just about the last thing one expects to see in the theatre these days is a play about Marian visions. Nevertheless, the very brave Katori Hall takes on the true story of three young Rwandan girls who, in 1981, began to see ...
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Theatre in Review: Side Show (St. James Theatre)
They've given a face lift to Side Show, the 1997 musical now back on Broadway in a heavily revised version, but they might have given more attention to massaging this strange musical's beating heart. Side Show needed serious ...
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Announcing: The Finalists for USA Exhibit to PQ 2015
The curators for the USITT-USA National Exhibit to the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space have chosen the finalists for exhibit at PQ 2015. Six primary performance works and several examples of design work in ...
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Theatre in Review: Pitbulls (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
You can say one thing for Pitbulls: It features a setting and characters rarely seen in theatre; then again, there may be a reason for that. The action unfolds in a small town near the Ohio River and, especially as rendered in An ...
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Theatre in Review: On a Stool at the End of the Bar (The Directors Company/59E59)
The first few minutes of Robert Callely's new play are purposely devoted to depicting the most banal picture of domestic life imaginable. We are in the kitchen of Tony DeMarco and his second wife, Christine, in Camden County, New ...
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The Inaugural PLASA Focus Glasgow, comes to the SECC
The latest in the successful series of PLASA Focus events will take place at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Center, Glasgow on December 2 and 3, 2014.
Aimed at bringing together audio sound and lighting experts working ...
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Eventide Announces Strategic Partnership with Yamaha
Eventide announces the formation of a strategic partnership with Yamaha to develop signature effects for a future update to its recently announced flagship live sound console, the RIVAGE PM10. The ...
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Theatre in Review: Allegro (Classic Stage Company)
Among the musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Allegro is the ugly duckling, a promising original that never managed to shed its feathers and take flight. One of only two R&H shows not adapted from a novel, play, or film, ...
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