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Theatre in Review: Picnic (Roundabout Theatre Company/American Airlines Theatre)

"Mind if I start a fire?" So asks Hal Carter, the hunky young drifter who has stopped in a hot Kansas town long enough to set off a conflagration of aroused passions among the women assembled in a communal backyard on a steamy Labor Day. ...

Theatre in Review: The Future is Not What it Was (Kindling Theatre Company/Walkerspace)

The new production at Walkerspace is a classic good-news/bad-news situation, so let's get the dreary part out of the way first.The Future is Not What it Was is thoroughly derivative, overlong by nearly an hour, and contains ...

Theatre in Review: Life and Times: Episodes 1-4 (Public Theater)

Life and Times: Episodes 1-4 is a Dadaist oratorio based on a series of telephone calls. It runs ten hours.
Is the room empty yet? No? All right, I'll continue. A production of the New York-based Nature Theatre of ...

Philadelphia IATSE Local 8 Strikes at Philadelphia Theatre Company for MLK, Jr. Show

Philadelphia Theatre Company's union stagehands, members of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 8, are on strike at the theatre company, which planned to begin performances of Katori Hall's Th ...

GoVision LED Screens in the Spotlight at Obama Inauguration

When the world tunes in for the swearing-in of President Barack Obama on Monday, five enormous mobile LED screens provided by Texas-based GoVision will be impossible to miss. The video walls -- including the world's largest high ...

Clearwing Productions Adds Two Yamaha CL5 Consoles to their Rental Inventory

Keeping pace with the ever evolving and advancing digital audio marketplace, Clearwing has purchased two Yamaha CL5 consoles. This purchase offers their rental customers access to Yamaha's most technologically advanced ...

New NSCA Labor Installation Standard Report Available

Labor variables have become the biggest challenge to accurately provide labor estimates on common projects associated with the commercial electronics systems industry. The 2013 edition of the NSCA Labor Installation Standard report ...

coolux connect conference a Great Success

The second coolux connect conference, which was held January 8-9 at the KOMED in Cologne's MediaPark, was attended by almost 220 AV professionals from more than 20 countries.
Designers, programmers, content creators, and rental ...

Sound Image Upgrades Audio System at Atlanta's Historical Tabernacle With Harman's JBL VTX Line Arrays

Sound Image of Escondido, California has dramatically improved the house PA system at the Tabernacle in Atlanta with an upgrade to Harman's JBL VTX line arrays. While the venue, constructed as a Baptist church in 1910, posed ...

Robe Shows Its Metal for VR Steel in Las Vegas

Lighting and set designer Tim Dunn from Gearhouse South Africa specified Robe Robin 600 LEDWash and PureWhite moving lights to illuminate VR Steel's new booth, that premiered at the recent Mine Expo International 2012 ...

New Sennheiser iPad app "Blue Stage" Delivers Inspiring Stories on the Subject of Sound

Audio specialist Sennheiser showcases its passion for sound through its new digital magazine, the "Blue Stage" iPad app, which offers interactive storytelling coupled with explorative navigation. A new edition is released every ...

Williams Sound Names Pro Tech Marketing as New Rep Firm

Williams Sound announces the appointment of Pro Tech Marketing as the company's representative for Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Eastern Montana, Southeast Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Southwest Texas. ...

The Super Powers of DiGiCo's SD7T Propel Batman Live Production

A superhero and cultural icon operating out of the fictional American Gotham City, Batman is assisted by various characters including his crime-fighting partner, Robin in his continuous war on crime. Armed with a keen intellect, detective ...

Clay Paky Sharpy Fixtures Help Fans Get Blown Away on Carrie Underwood's World Tour

Country music superstar Carrie Underwood continues her Blown Away tour with a large inventory of Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures on hand to accent the video components of the show. The singer's first worldwide tour is in support of ...

Theatre in Review: Midsummer [A Play with Songs] (Theatre Row)

Not too far into Midsummer [A Play with Songs] the characters imagine the Hollywood version of their story, all jacked up with clichés. There is even a brief discussion of whether Hugh Jackman or Russell Crowe would make the better ...

Bose RoomMatch Sound System Chosen for Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Church in Washington

When construction began on Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (a new Catholic church in Woodinville, Washington), church leadership and the architect, Seattle-based Broderick Architects, turned to Olympia, Washington's CCI Solutions ...

Lightning-Struck Monastery Blessed by Ashly Amplifiers

Mount Saint Benedict Monastery in Erie, Pennsylvania is the spiritual center of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie and a nursing facility for elderly women. Its main chapel seats approximately one hundred individuals, and the sisters hold two ...

Chameleon Touring Lights Brisbane Festival with LumenRadio

To celebrate Australia's annual 30-night Brisbane Festival last fall, 3,000-sq.-m. of brilliant lighting, visible for over 10km, lit up downtown Brisbane's business district. Sponsored by Santos GLNG City of Lights and designed by John ...

UEP Boosts its LED Lighting and Video Inventories

Buckinghamshire, UK-based rental and technical design services specialist Universal Event Productions (UEP) has added to its LED lighting inventory with the purchase of i-Pix i-Line 6 fixtures and MilTec MTC Batten 2s. ...

Harman's Soundcraft "Mixing with Professionals" Tour Rolls through Alexandria, Virginia

Harman's Soundcraft is kicking off 2013 with new dates for its popular "Mixing with Professionals" (MwP) series, starting with two sessions in Alexandria, Virginia on Wednesday, February 6. Hosting the sessions will be James ...