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  MAC III Performance for National Theatre Mannheim
The National Theatre Mannheim, Germany has a celebrated history that stretches back centuries. Housing a variety of performance spaces for opera, ballet, and theatre, it is also notable for being the oldest local theatre in ...
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DPA's New Reference Standard Mics on Orfeo ed Euridice
Christoph Willibald von Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice was presented during June and July against the royal backdrop of Soestdijk Palace in Utrecht, the Netherlands, attracting 1,500 people per night. A large ...
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D.A.S. Audio at Oklahoma Beauty Pageants
Since 1975, Tulsa's Mabee Center, on the campus of Oral Roberts University, has been the site of the annual Miss Oklahoma Pageant. This year's Miss Oklahoma Pageant and its sibling event, Miss Oklahoma's Outstanding Teen ...
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Green Hippo Hippotizer at Jodrell Bank UK Observatory's "Transmission 001"
"Once again Hippotizer played its role beautifully. It never fails to deliver what we need across a wide range of applications we throw at it," remarked Richard Bagshaw, of the design firm Digital Insanity, after completing the ...
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Par Fore Productions Relies on Prism Projections' Studio RevEAL for Green Screen Effects
First developed in the 1930's, Chroma Key compositing is a technique for placing two images together where a color from one image is removed, revealing the second image behind it and making the two appear as one. Also referred to as "gre ...
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Barco at Stone Mountain Laser show Spectacular
Barco is virtually moving mountains in Georgia, together with veteran entertainment company Full Spectrum, animating the world's largest granite face with sophisticated 3D architectural mapping techniques to create a ...
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New Zealand Church Turns to iLive
Bethlehem Baptist Church in Tauranga, New Zealand, recently decided to upgrade its front-of-house console from analog to digital, selecting Allen & Heath's iLive digital mixing system as the replacement. ...
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LumenRadio Announces Its Support for Recently Published Art-Net 3 Specifications
Support for Art-Net 3 will be released at PLASA 2011, September 11-14, Earls Court, London, and will be available immediately for the entire line of CRMX Ethernet products.
Since the CRMX line of products was launched back in ...
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Indiana Tragedy Shakes Production Industry
The collapse in high winds of a temporary concert stage at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday claimed five lives and left almost 50 injured, according to news reports. An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the ...
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Laser Design on Katy Perry's California Dreams Tour
After traveling through Australia and Japan, Katy Perry has kicked off the North American leg of her California Dreams Tour. The show, which you can read about in the August issue of Lighting&Sound America, has ...
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Martin MAC 101 at Peugeot Reveal
Peugeot UK decided to preview its new midrange saloon and estate range at the ICC in Birmingham, UK in order to give its dealers a chance to view the new 508 series models first hand before the public launch of the car. ...
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Royer Ribbons Tour with Muse
Marc "MC" Carolan, the front-of-house engineer for British rockers Muse, is using the R-122 live active ribbon microphone from Royer Labs for lead vocalist, guitarist, and keyboards Matthew Bellamy's guitar ...
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Robe on Reazione A Catena, Italian TV Game Show
Over 90 Robe moving lights including the new ROBIN 600 LEDWash, are the core lighting fixtures being used on the new series of Reazione A Catena (Chain Reaction), a popular Italian game show based on contestants ...
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Kaizers Orchestra Plays Oslo Spektrum Using Clay Paky Alpha fixtures
On April 9 the Norwegian rock band Kaizers Orchestra played a fully booked Oslo Spektrum for an audience of 10,000.
"As Norway's most important venue, selling out Oslo Spektrum is a huge step for any Norwegian band and ...
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ProAudio Ltd. Chooses Community for Bulgaria's New National Sports Arena
Burgas, Bulgaria-based audio specialist ProAudio Ltd. has recently completed the design and installation of the audio systems for the new Bulgarian National Sports Arena in Sofia.
Located near the Pliska ...
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Robe to Launch New Products at PLASA Show
Robe reports that it plans to launch two "important and unique" new LED products at PLASA 2011 -- the ROBIN 1200 LEDWash, and the ROBIN DLX Spot, and previews the upcoming ROBIN 'Sniper' -- a mega-bright fixture with a ...
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Theatre in Review: Death Takes a Holiday (Roundabout Theatre Company/Laura Pels Theatre)
If the new musical at the Roundabout proves anything, it's that, even when the title is Death Takes a Holiday, you'd better take Death seriously -- or else.
It's been a point worth noting ever since 1924, when the ...
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RCF Launches LF18X401 Woofer
The latest addition to the RCF line of 18" woofers is the LF18X401, a new design with a ferrite magnet, ventilation and "very low power compression," says the company. It features a 4" fiberglass inside-outside copper voice coil, ...
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Atascadero Bible Church Relies on Countryman
At Atascadero Bible Church, in Atascadero, California, redwood paneling lines the back of the stage from the floor all the way up to the 25'-high ceilings -- also made of acoustically-untreated California redwood. The back wall, ...
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Morris Light and Sound Rents Clay Paky Gear to Variety of US Projects
Tennessee-based rental company Morris Light and Sound Inc. reports that it can't keep its new inventory of Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures on the shelves. The company is also doing a brisk business with its grandMA and grandMA ...
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