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Audinate Joins AVnu Alliance

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

Audinate has announced that it has joined the AVnu Alliance as a promoter member. The AVnu Alliance is an industry organization that is dedicated to the advancement of professional quality audio and video networking via the adoption ...

Boca Flasher Releases SBL-WWW LED Brick Light Fixture

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

The SBL-WWW is the latest product development of Boca Flasher's brick lights featuring 48 high output (1.2W) LEDs per linear foot and utilizing CleanDim technology. Offering up to 92+ CRI illumination, it provides homogeneous, high ...

TOMCAT 2010 Hoist and Rigging Workshops

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

In February 2010, a team of world-class instructors and about 60 participants from all over the United States and Canada traveled to Midland, Texas to attend TOMCAT 's Hoist and Truss workshop or the Rigging and Truss workshop. The Hoist and ...

Allen & Heath Launches Two New Additions to Xone DJ Range

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

Allen & Heath will be launching a new club installation product, the Xone:PB patchbay, and the XD-40 monitoring headphones at Prolight + Sound, Frankfurt.
The Xone:PB patchbay is a 1U rack size, passive interface box, designed to ...

SurgeX Launches New 1000 VA Line Interactive Ups Surge Eliminator

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

SurgeX, a leader in AC power conditioning and surge elimination products, has released its latest UPS surge eliminator, the SU-1000Li. Unlike other UPS products, the SU-1000Li, a 1000 VA Line Interactive UPS, is backed with SurgeX Advanced ...

Theatre in Review: The Cocktail Party (The Actors Company Theatre/Theatre Row)

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

The Actors Company Theatre is one of a trinity of Off Broadway organizations -- the others are the Mint Theatre and the Keen Company -- that regularly satiates our curiosity about the past, offering first-class productions of yesterday's ...

Theatre in Review: The Book of Grace (Public Theatre/Anspacher)

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

A house divided against itself cannot stand -- that, in a nutshell, is the underlying theme of Suzan-Lori Parks' plays. I'm quoting Lincoln because, sooner or later, she does, too. Her breakthrough work, The America Play, re-enacts ...

Compulite to Show at Prolight + Sound

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

The Compulite team will be at Prolight + Sound from 24th - 27th March, at Messe Frankfurt centre with Feiner Lichttechnik, Compulite's German distributor. The company will be at Halle 11.0, Stand B70. ...

Billy Elliot on U.S. Tour with ETC Eos Control Console and Revolution Moving Lights

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

Billy Elliot, the theater musical that has been such a success in London, Sydney and New York, is now going worldwide. Its U.S. tour kicks off in Chicago at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre, on March 18th. ...

RSS M-48 Personal Mixing System Live on NAACP Image Awards

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

The 2010 NAACP Image Awards were broadcast on FOX on February 26 live from The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with audio production services provided by ATK AudioTek of Valencia, CA.
The live band was lead by Rickey ...

Renkus-Heinz Beam Steering Arrays Deployed at University of Cologne Auditorium

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
German system designers hartmann+mathias partnerschaft and acoustic consultants Peutz Consult GmbH have unveiled a new audio system for the auditorium of Cologne University. Four Renkus-Heinz ICONYX IC 24 digitally ...

White Light Installs LED-Based Lighting Scheme at London's Natural History Museum

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
Although still thought of by some as a supplier of theatre lighting, London-based White Light continues to demonstrate that its work now spans every area of entertainment lighting with the recent installation of a dramatic new LED-based ...

Rob Thomas Tours with Vari-Lite

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
Benoit Richards has been lighting Rob Thomas, as a solo singer or lead singer for Matchbox Twenty , for nearly ten years and Rob's recent tour in support of his album Cradlesong was no different. ...

St. Joe's University Hawks' New Home and New Community Pro Solutions Series Loudspeakers

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
The Hawks basketball team of Saint Joseph's University have a long, proud history dating back several generations. The team has called the Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse home since 1949, and have won more than 80% of the games they've ...

London's Coronet Upgrades With New GLP Impression Zoom

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
The famous, late Victorian Coronet Theatre in South London may have had something of a checkered history, but under the management of Blackfriars' newly-created Blackfriars Promotions, the 2,500-plus capacity venue has undergone ...

ACIR Professional Outfits Al Di Meola Show with d&b and Yamaha PM5Ds

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST
A bona fide guitar hero, Al Di Meola has also been recognized over the past 30 years as a prolific composer and respected artist with over 20 recordings. A native of New Jersey, Di Meola performed in late January at the 2,000-seat Count ...