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(3/28/2014)

-Clay Paky Spotlights Illuminate Doltone House

Clay Paky Spotlights Illuminate Doltone House

Clay Paky distributor for Australia, Show Technology, has supplied 14 Clay Paky Alpha Spot 300s to luxury venue Doltone House in Sydney's Hyde Park.
Situated on level three of the Tattersalls Club, the Doltone House venue ...
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(3/28/2014)

-Robe For Brazilian Summer Festival Main Stage

Robe For Brazilian Summer Festival Main Stage

Almost 100 Robe moving lights were utilized by rental company Luzbel Iluminação for the Main Stage of the 16th Festival de Verão (Summer Festival) in Salvador, the capital of Bahia, Brazil.
The event pulled in more than 120,000 ...
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(3/27/2014)

-USITT to Launch Spark Innovation Symposium in September 2014

USITT to Launch Spark Innovation Symposium in September 2014

The United States Institute for Theatre Technology used its 2014 Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Fort Worth to launch a new annual event to spark innovations in entertainment technology. The first Spark entertainment innovation ...More

(3/27/2014)

-Major Donation to USITT Spurs Research

Major Donation to USITT Spurs Research

USITT's ability to fund cutting-edge research took a huge step forward on March 26 when Novella Smith and Robert Gerlach made a $20,000 donation to the Edward Kook Fund.
The gifts, announced at USITT's Annual Meeting in ...
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(3/27/2014)

-Harman's Martin Professional M6 Lighting Console Wins Inaugural PIPA Award for Best Lighting Controller

Harman's Martin Professional M6 Lighting Console Wins Inaugural PIPA Award for Best Lighting Controller

Underscoring Harman Martin Professional's position as a leading provider of dynamic lighting solutions for entertainment production, the Martin M6 lighting console was awarded the first ever Prolight + Sound International Press ...More

(3/27/2014)

-ARC-Productions First Belgian Company To Back MLA Platform

ARC-Productions First Belgian Company To Back MLA Platform

Belgian pro audio and lighting specialists ARC-Productions have confirmed the purchase of 16-enclosure Martin Audio MLA Compact and Mini PA rigs, the first company in that country to do so.
Based near Ghent in Flanders, ...
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(3/27/2014)

-AT&T Stadium to Be Transformed into NCAA Men's Final Four 2014 Basketball Arena

AT&T Stadium to Be Transformed into NCAA Men's Final Four 2014 Basketball Arena

Minneapolis staging manufacturer Staging Concepts will partner with The Colonnade Group, an entertainment and sports production company, to transform AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas into a fully functioning basketball arena ...More

(3/27/2014)

-PixelFLEX LED Curtain Reaches New Heights Thanks to Custom Hardware on Casting Crowns' Thrive Tour

PixelFLEX LED Curtain Reaches New Heights Thanks to Custom Hardware on Casting Crowns' Thrive Tour

When a music artist has big ideas for a tour, it's up to the guys behind the scenes to bring that vision to life. Casting Crowns' production manager, Carter Hassebroek, and lighting designer Chris Lighthall worked with Pete ...More

(3/27/2014)

-TNDV Captures Creative Energy of Amnesty International Show at Barclays Center

TNDV Captures Creative Energy of Amnesty International Show at Barclays Center

TNDV has had a busy mobile production schedule through the first quarter of 2014, with Amnesty International's Bring Human Rights Home Concert last month standing out as its most unique project. The event, which took place at ...More

(3/27/2014)

-Robe for Rudimental

Robe for Rudimental

Lighting designer Jonny Gaskell chose Robe moving lights to be right at the center of his design for the latest UK leg of BRIT Award-winning band Rudimental's ongoing tour.
Gaskell has been working with the band since 2013. ...
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(3/27/2014)

-Robe Gets Its Rizzle Kicks On Tour

Robe Gets Its Rizzle Kicks On Tour

Speed was at the essence of the all-Robe moving light rig specified by lighting designer Paul "Smiffy" Smith for the latest UK tour by lively hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks, with gear supplied by High Wycombe based rental company More

(3/27/2014)

-A Brief Encounter with ETC

A Brief Encounter with ETC

Late 2013 saw Kneehigh Theatre's production of Noel Cowards Brief Encounter tour the country for three months. Production for the tour was provided by the Adelaide-based Novatech Creative Event Technology, who worked closely ...More

(3/27/2014)

-Brazil's EPTV Outfits OB Van with Grass Valley Solutions for Coverage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup

Brazil's EPTV Outfits OB Van with Grass Valley Solutions for Coverage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup

Brazil's Empresa Paulista de Televisão (EPTV), part of the commercial network TV Globo, replaced its SD OB van with a brand-new HD OB van equipped with a scalable Grass Valley live production solution for HD coverage of major ...More

(3/27/2014)

-XL Supplies New Radiant MC-18 Hybrid for Kings of Leon Tour

XL Supplies New Radiant MC-18 Hybrid for Kings of Leon Tour

XL Video's new Radiant MC-18 Hybrid LED screen is on the road for the first time in the US with the Kings of Leon on its Mechanical Bull Tour, where it was specified by production designer, Paul Normandale. ...More

(3/27/2014)

-Theatre in Review: Hellman v. McCarthy (Abingdon Theatre Company)

Theatre in Review: Hellman v. McCarthy (Abingdon Theatre Company)

The title bout may be Hellman v. McCarthy, but the laurels go to the referee, Dick Cavett. Brian Richard Mori's new play, about one of the 20th century's great literary catfights, is framed as an episode of The Dick ...More

(3/27/2014)

-Theatre in Review: Jasper in Deadland (Prospect Theater Company/West End Theater)

Theatre in Review: Jasper in Deadland (Prospect Theater Company/West End Theater)

Jasper, the hero of Jasper in Deadland, is one troubled teen. His parents are divorcing, his mother has a boyfriend, he hates school, and he has no friends. Well, actually, he has one friend, a girl named Agnes, but as this new ...More

(3/26/2014)

-More Free Educational Sessions at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2014

More Free Educational Sessions at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2014

New sessions have been added to the Professional Development Program taking place at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2014, at the Royal Armouries at Clarence Dock, only a short distance from the center of Leeds, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday, April 29 and ...More

(3/26/2014)

-2014 TDF Irene Sharaff Awards Announced

2014 TDF Irene Sharaff Awards Announced

Scenic designer, writer, and professor Marjorie Bradley Kellogg and costume designer Deborah M. Dryden are among the 2014 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards recipients. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Friday, May 2, at ...More

(3/26/2014)

-Gemini Light Sound & Video Takes Delivery of Clay Paky Sharpy Wash Fixtures

Gemini Light Sound & Video Takes Delivery of Clay Paky Sharpy Wash Fixtures

Dallas-based Gemini Light Sound & Video has invested in 30 Clay Paky Sharpy Washes and plans to add more of the popular fixtures to its rental inventory. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky ...More

(3/26/2014)

-German Dry Hire Specialist Motion Receives Award for Purchase of 1,000th SGM P-5 Wash Light

German Dry Hire Specialist Motion Receives Award for Purchase of 1,000th SGM P-5 Wash Light

At this year's Prolight+Sound Show in Frankfurt, Hans Günter Dünkel from Motion in Fürth, received a special award to commemorate the purchase of their 1,000th SGM P-5 wash light.
"Over a short period of just 18 ...
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