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Canadian Theatre Training Summit Held on World Theatre Day

On March 27, World Theatre Day, the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) and the Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology / Institut canadien des technologies scenographiques (CITT/ICTS) hosted a national ...

In Memoriam: Tammy Smith

Tammy Smith, director of lighting design at Lightswitch, died on March 24. The cause was cancer. She was 58.
A native of Aurora, Illinois, she attended St. Paul's Lutheran School and Oswego High School, where she first got ...

IA Stage's Flight Wins ESTA's Members' Choice Awards

IA Stage's self-climbing hoist, Flight, won an ESTA Member's Choice Award in the equipment category. Bruce Darden, IA Stage hoist specialist and inventor of the patent-pending hoist, said, "With 22 years in the industry, I ...

Vectorworks Reveals 2026 Creative Genius Award Winners

Vectorworks, Inc. announces the winners of the 2026 Creative Genius Awards, celebrating extraordinary innovation and technical excellence across architecture, interiors, landscape, and entertainment design disciplines. ...

Shure Bolsters Leadership with Two New VPs and Addition to Executive Staff

Shure is welcoming two new vice presidents and announcing the appointment of a longtime company officer to its executive staff.
Phil McPhee has joined Shure as vice president of operations and chief supply chain officer ...

Adam Hall Group Appoints All Music Group to Distribute Several Brands in Central America and Caribbean

The Adam Hall Group is continuing its international growth trajectory in 2026, welcoming the US-based All Music Group as a new distribution partner for the LD Systems, Gravity, Palmer, and Defender brands in several countries across ...

Creative Technology Group (CT) Adds Analog Way Aquilon RS6 For Live Event Production

Creative Technology Group, Inc. (CT), the NEP Live Events group, has invested in multiple Analog Way Aquilon RS6 systems for its live event production inventory.
CT is a provider of innovation, technology, project ...

Springboard to Design Announces 2026 Cohort

Springboard to Design has selected students for its 2026 cohort after attracting more than 4,500 applications from 70 countries and territories. The program will take place July 19-25 at The Harvey Fierstein Theatre Lab housed in ...

L-Acoustics DJ Turns a Former Sunglasses Store into Technologically Ambitious California Nightclub

The Breakbeat, which recently opened in downtown Chico, California, occupies a compact former sunglasses store that its founder, Azariah "Z" Reynolds, has transformed into a multipurpose arts and performance space built around the ...