News Archive - June 2018

GIS AG, the Swiss-Based Electric Chain Hoist Manufacturer, Acquires UK Distributor LTM

GIS AG, the Swiss-based electric chain hoist and light crane manufacturer, has acquired UK distributor Lift Turn Move (LTM), a supplier of lifting and rigging equipment to the industrial and entertainment event markets. ...

Meredith Shay Appointed New CEO of InCord, Ltd.

InCord announces the appointment of Meredith (Ritz) Shay as its new CEO. Shay has succeeded Ed Ritz, who will continue to serve InCord as advisor and as president of the InCord board of directors. ...

Eiki International Appoints Schippers Director of Operations

Eiki International, Inc. a provider for over 40 years of projection technology, announces the appointment of John Schippers to the position of director of operations. As an Eiki employee for over 10 years, Schippers is well ...

L-Acoustics Gets It Right for the Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee

The Scripps National Spelling Bee has been an American cultural and educational institution since the first Bee, back in 1925. This year, the event took place on May 31, capping off "Bee Week," at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention ...

Indochine is RoboSpotted

Lighting designer Thomas Dechandon of the 4eleven collective created a stunning show for French superstar pop-rock band Indochine's recent tour, including over 200 Robe moving lights on the rig -- with MegaPointes, ...

Chicago's Sleeping Village Stays Up Late with DiGiCo

Over the past decade, The Whistler has firmly secured its reputation as one of Chicago's best cocktail bars, not to mention its enduring popularity as a hip Logan Square hangout for intimate live music and DJ sets. So what did the venue's ...

Penn State University's Eisenhower Auditorium Welcomes New Era with Meyer Sound LEO Family

Penn State University notched up the technical capabilities for its performing arts programs with the recent installation of a Meyer Sound LEO Family reinforcement system in Eisenhower Auditorium, the flagship facility of the Center ...

Firehouse Productions Takes Focusrite RedNet on Tour with Jack White and Nine Inch Nails

Audio-over-IP has proven its worth in countless installed-sound applications. Now, as concert touring has become the single largest source of revenue for most music artists, AoIP (specifically the Dante protocol) is going out on the ...

Westgate International Theater In Las Vegas Employs Bose Professional RoomMatch Systems for Barry Manilow

Grammy Award-winning recording artist and performer Barry Manilow began an extended residency at the International Theater at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino on May 24, featuring favorites from his deep songbook of hits. The ...

High-Tech Calvary Chapel Las Vegas Mixes with Allen & Heath

Calvary Chapel Las Vegas is a missions and outreach focused church with a highly capable tech crew that supports five worship services each week using an Allen & Heath dLive Digital Mixing System in their main worship space and an ...

Oscar-Winning Sound Engineer Thomas Curley Takes Lectrosonics PDR for a Ride on Major Film and TV Projects

Oscar award-winning sound engineer Thomas Curley recently added the Lectrosonics PDR Portable Digital Audio Recorder, to his wireless equipment package which includes the SSM Super Slight Micro Transmitter and 200 and 400 ...

1993 to 2018: 25 Years of Stage Tec

Stage Tec, the Berlin-based manufacturer of professional audio equipment, celebrates its 25th anniversary on the 1st of July 2018. The company was founded by 20 shareholders, including 13 engineers, most of whom still work at the ...

Theatre in Review: Fairview (Soho Rep)

In Fairview, the playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury empties her bag of tricks so thoroughly you have to wonder if she will have anything left for the future. Her new work consists of a barrage of devices -- some of which ...

Clint Hoffman Appointed CEO of Kramer Electronics USA

Kramer Electronics Ltd. has announced that Clint Hoffman, chief operating officer and chief growth officer, has been promoted to the role of chief executive officer of Kramer Electronics USA, and that his new position ...

IAAPA Names John Hallenbeck Vice President of North American Operations

The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) announced John Hallenbeck has joined the association's team as vice president of North American operations. Hallenbeck will lead the IAAPA North ...

Philip von Senden Named New Managing Director of Robycam Germany GmbH

Philip von Senden will lead the newly founded Robycam Germany GmbH as managing director. Together with joint managing director Stefan Breder, von Senden will establish the new company in the market. Robycam Germany ...

A Full House for Barbizon Lighting's Small Format LED Fixture Showcase in NYC

Barbizon Lighting recently hosted a private event for designers, consultants, and other specifiers of small format LED fixtures for theatre, museum/gallery, broadcast/film, and retail applications. ...

Calrec Gives Brio a Boost with New Expansion Packs

Calrec Audio is giving its widely used Brio audio console a boost in channel count. New expansion packs are now available that increase the Brio12 DSP count from 48 to 64 input channels and the Brio36 from 64 to 96 input channels. ...

ETELM's TETRA and LTE Base Stations Make US Breakthrough at Plugtest

ETELM, a manufacturer of advanced mission-critical communications radio infrastructure, has successfully connected its 4GLinked TETRA e-TBS and LTE e-LBS base stations to many other vendors at the second Mission Critical Push-to ...

KOI-USA 2018 Announces Judging Panel for Concert Touring & Events Category

The inaugural American Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI-USA), which brings this celebration of the achievements of show lighting and video designers to the United States for the first time, announce the full judging panel for the ...

MDR Sound and Lighting Transforms Te Auaha Student Theatre with Chauvet Professional Ovation

Right in the heart of this nation's capital stands Te Auaha -- a new state-of-the-art university campus that provides a home to students of creative disciplines such as photography, film production, performing arts, visual arts, and music. ...

ArKaos Pro Kling-Force Walks the Walk

ArKaos continues to expand its work and partnerships in the "architainment," architectural, and commercial creative media installation sectors ... on a recent project in the International Terminal at Brussels' Zaventem Airport. ...

Team UP for Painting with Light

Prolific Belgian TV and stage entertainment producers Studio 100 asked Painting with Light to design lighting and video, including content creation, for its 2018 Ketnet (Children's TV channel) musical Team UP which ...

Ashly nX Series Amp Takes on the 70-Volt System at the Harker School's New Auditorium

The Harker School is a non-profit private school in San Jose, California. It serves grades Pre-K through twelve across four campuses that all accelerate education via state-of-the-art facilities and instructional methods. Recently, The ...

PK Sound Collaborates with the Do Lab at Lightning in a Bottle 2018

PK Sound's crew of expert engineers and technicians returned to the Do Lab's Lightning in a Bottle festival for Memorial Day 2018. An estimated 30,000 fans and contributors arrived at San Antonio Lake in Bradley, California, to play ...

The IESNYC Celebrates 50 LUMEN Years

The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IESNYC) announced the recipients of the 2018 Lumen Awards at the 50th annual Lumen Gala held on June 14, 2018, at Pier 60 in Chelsea Piers. A signature ...

Yamaha Professional Audio Adds Two to CIS Team

Yamaha Professional Audio has announced two additional appointments to its commercial installation solutions (CIS) team as the group continues its expansion.
Phil Sanchez has been appointed to the position of market ...

Ladd Temple Appointed North American Sales Director for Innovox Audio

Innovox Audio, creators of advanced audio solutions for the most unique architectural applications, has announced the appointment of Ladd Temple to the position of North American sales director. ...

Lawo Appoints Jeff Smith Vice President of Sales, Americas

Lawo, the IP-video, AoIP, and networked audio video systems company based in Rastatt, Germany, continues its expansion in the Americas with the appointment of Jeff Smith to the post of vice president of sales, Americas. ...

Northern Lights Shine at the Minster

Artists Ross Ashton and Karen Monid returned to York Minster in the UK to deliver an immersive and intricately crafted sonic and visual work York Minster.
The video projection and sound installation was commissioned by the ...

RCI Lights Up Baltimore Harbor with EAW

Light City Baltimore is an annual event that takes place at the Baltimore Harbor celebrating light, music, and innovation. This year the Baltimore Office of Production and Arts decided to add a new stage to the event -- Club Light City -- ...

DiGiCo Performs on Every Major Stage of Coachella

For two consecutive weekends in April each year, more than a quarter of a million music fans make their desert pilgrimage to Indio, California's Empire Polo Club for what is arguably North America's highest-profile live music mecca, the ...

disguise Powers Panoramic ION Sky Multimedia Show in Singapore

Visitors and Singapore residents alike are flocking to the ION Sky multimedia show atop the tallest building on Orchard Road. Driven by disguise 4x4pro and 2x4pro media servers, the latest attraction on the city skyline offers a ...

The Spatialized Sounds of Philadelphia Voices with d&b Soundscape

"...we seek to enhance music as a performance art, and to develop its transformative power as counterpoint to our everyday lives."
It's the second part of this statement, by Opera of the Future, that sits at the heart of Philadelphia ...

Harman Professional Solutions Helps Toolroom Records Create an All-In-One Production Facility

Toolroom Records recently installed a complete audio and lighting system by Harman Professional Solutions in a brand new performance space and broadcast studio at the label's headquarters in Maidstone UK. ...

Clair Brothers kiTCurve Guides Dreamweavers Sound to Higher Ground

Dreamweavers is an event production company serving greater Australia as a world-class, full-service force in integrated event creation and production. Straight shooters who avoid spin and deliver what they refer to as "unique and ...

AES Chooses Community and Powersoft for Pau Grand Prix

For more than a century, the streets of Pau city in the south of France are annually transformed into a race track as the city welcomes the Grand Prix of Pau.
Over two weekends in May each year, visitors enjoy a spectacular festival of ...

Theatre in Review: Girls and Boys (Minetta Lane Theatre)

Carey Mulligan's performance in Girls and Boys is so assured, so thoroughly gripping, that it generates considerable suspense: Can she possibly sustain such intensity, her effortless command over the audience, for the ...

Theatre in Review: Carmen Jones (Classic Stage Company)

There are, I think, two ways of looking at this thoroughly unexpected revival of Carmen Jones. On the one hand, it is likely to go down as one of the season's most fascinating curios, a revival of a show that for many years ...

Audio Engineering Society Announces Executive Director Transition

After six-and-a-half years of service as the Audio Engineering Society's executive director, Bob Moses has elected to leave his position, effective July 1, 2018. "I'm proud of the work we've done," said Moses. "Re-engineering ...

LightParts Named Authorized ETC Service Center

LightParts Inc. announces the company has been named an authorized service center for Electronic Theater Controls (ETC) products.
Don Pugh, president of LightParts said, "LightParts has been 'unofficially' repairing ...

ADB Joins W-DMX OEM Family

Wireless Solution Sweden announces that ADB Stage Lighting has joined W-DMX's OEM family.
The company has recently debuted the KLEMANTIS, a new LED cyclorama light based on a six-color module, with cutting-edge HCR, being ...

Robe is Non Stop Live with Vasco Rossi

"It's a rock 'n' roll show!!" ... yelled Italian superstar Vasco Rossi repeatedly about a third into his epic set at the Stadio San Nicola in Bari ... although no one doubted that as 50,000 adoring fans screamed their appreciation of the ...

OSA Supports Chicago Opera Production of Jesus Christ Superstar with Martin Audio

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's award-winning production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar featured a full complement of Martin Audio MLA Compact and CDD-LIVE supplied by OSA International, Inc. ...

Brings Rock May Day Polka Party in Cologne with Elation Lighting

Countless parties take place on May Day in Germany and this year one of the best took place in Cologne as hometown band Brings rocked Lanxess Arena with a high-energy Polka Party. TSL Production of Cologne supported the event as the ...

SGM Rail Lights at London Science Museum

White Light (WL) was recently chosen to oversee a custom lighting installation in the Making the Modern World gallery -- one of the flagship galleries at the Science Museum, London. The gallery features some of the museum's most ...

Bandit Brings the Lights to Jason Aldean's High Noon Neon Tour

Bandit Lites once again is on the road with three-time and reigning ACM "Entertainer of the Year" Jason Aldean throughout his High Noon Neon tour. The tour launched to capacity crowds and continues to roll through the biggest ...

Jeff Hinton Pumps Up Late Nite Blues Brothers Benefit with Chauvet DJ

A large brassy blues and funk ensemble should be supported by a bold light show that covers the stage with intense, colorful, and fast-moving light, believes Jeff Hinton. The owner of 815 Productions, Hinton put this theory ...

World Cup 2018: Funktion-One and MC2 Sound for Volgograd Arena

Funktion-One Russia has supplied and installed a permanent state of the art sound system for Volgograd Arena -- one of the World Cup 2018 stadia. Working closely with the Funktion-One design team in the UK, the company ...

NEXT-proaudio Reinforces Daydream Festival in China

Born in Belgium in 2010, Daydream Festival is a comprehensive music festival, famous for its gorgeous scenery and atmosphere, including popular music and electric music. This Music Festival has travelled to Mexico, Spain, and the ...

Leo-Z Picks Telefunken for Materia Prima

Gifted composer and pianist Leo-Z employed his Telefunken ELA M 260 Stereo Set of small diaphragm condenser microphones to capture the precision sound of Steinway grand pianos for his debut solo album, Materia Prima. ...

Theatre in Review: Log Cabin (Playwrights Horizons)

In Log Cabin, Jordan Harrison has the entirely laudable idea of lampooning entitled, wealthy gays and lesbians who, in the second half of the Obama Administration, are so caught up in the tiny dramas associated with ...

Theatre in Review: Cyprus Avenue (The Public Theater)

It's a strange experience to see a fine actor giving a tour-de-force performance in a play that goes irreparably off the rails, but such is the singular experience of Cyprus Avenue. Stephen Rea spares himself nothing ...

Ecodesign Industry Task Force "Positive" as EU Submits Revised Draft

As the professional entertainment lighting industry continues to seek an exemption for specialist lighting from the European Union's Ecodesign regulation, an industry task force has said the situation is "far more positive" and "greatly ...

2018 Event Safety Summit is Now Open for Registration

Registration is now open for the Event Safety Alliance's annual Event Safety Summit, taking place Wednesday through Friday, November 28 - 30, 2018, at Rock Lititz in Lititz, Pennsylvania. The 2018 Event Safety Summit is being ...

LITEC Announces the New Plated Adjustable Corner

LITEC introduces a way for users to hit those perfect angles with their truss structures -- the new plated adjustable corner. The hinge feature of LITEC's adjustable corner gives the user even more creative freedom than before, by ...

Love, Ire & Song for Frank Turner and Robe

Folk punk singer songwriter Frank Turner recently played four vibrant and fully sold-out nights at London's Roundhouse venue, performing four completely unique sets and presenting lighting designer Tom Mason-Smith -- who loves ...

MDG Wins ESTim Award for Best Manufacturing Company

MDG is extremely proud to be the recipient of the 2018 ESTim Award for Best Manufacturing Company from the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Montreal. MDG has manufactured award-winning haze, fog, and low fog generators for over ...

GLP's Hybrids Out in Force on Mayday 2018

With 35 acts performing across three floors over a duration of 14 hours to around 18,000 dance aficionados, the traditional Mayday EDM event in Dortmund followed a familiar theme.
But for lighting designer Thomas Gerdon, who has ...

Christie Lites UK Invests in Kinesys

Christie Lites' UK operation has made a major investment in Kinesys automation equipment, with the purchase of 24 half-ton Liftket motors with Kinesys Elevation 1+ vari-speed controllers, complete with LibraCELL load ...

Glenn Ottenbacher Sets Mood for 18-Piece Steely Dan Tribute Band with Chauvet Professional

There was a level of complexity and depth to Steely Dan's music that set them apart from most of their contemporaries in the 1970s, a quality that prompted Rolling Stone to celebrate the band as "the perfect musical antiheros" of ...

Avolites Feels the Beat at the Billboard Latin Music Conference

The annual Billboard Latin Music Conference landed in Las Vegas in April with a series of star-studded events featuring Avolites-controlled lighting supplied by Miami, Florida-based production specialist 3G Productions. ...

Riverview Systems Group Heads into the Arena for the Alteryx "Inspire 2018" User Conference

Riverview Systems Group, the award-winning, full-service producer of engaging and innovative live events, announces its continued partnership with Alteryx, Inc., a leader in data science and analytics technology, at the company's ...

A Single Danley Genesis Horn Benefits Historic Cathedral Church of the Advent Both Sonically and Aesthetically

Founded only a few years after the city of Birmingham, Alabama itself was founded, Cathedral Church of the Advent is over 130-years-old and holds a place in the National Register of Historic Places. It is the seat of the Episcopal Diocese ...

Snow Patrol's Live Sound is Distortion Free Thanks to DPA

"Awesome," "clean," and "transparent" are just some of the superlatives monitor engineer Jamie Hickey uses when describing the effect DPA microphones are having on Snow Patrol's live drum sound. ...

Theatre in Review: Lonesome Blues (York Theatre Company)

Blind Lemon Jefferson isn't a household name, but he is a foundational figure in the history of the blues. Apparently, his country blues sound, which made him a star in the late 1920s, wasn't picked up by the artists who came ...

City Theatrical Introduces QolorFLEX Connect 10

City Theatrical has expanded its QolorFLEX brand of professional flexible linear LED lighting to include QolorFLEX Connect 10, a practical and time saving solution for managing the multiple wire runs and numerous connections needed ...

Historic State Legislation Passed Protecting Broadway Consumer Rights in Ticket Resale Market

The New Yok State Legislature passed historic legislation and adopted important consumer disclosures in the ticket resale market. Ticket buying has changed rapidly with the growth of the internet which has become the primary source for ...

URTA Announces New Leadership -- Tony Hagopian Named Third Executive Director of the Institution

The University Resident Theatre Association's board of directors announces the appointment of Tony Hagopian to the position of executive director. Joining Hagopian on the new leadership team will be Christy Hamilton as ...

disguise Names Bill Collis Chairman of the Board

disguise announces that Bill Collis has been appointed chairman of the board. He brings extensive experience in the film and video industry to his new post: Collis was formerly CEO and president of The Foundry, which he led ...

PLASA Show Proves Its Staying Power as It Returns to London

Still buzzing from last year's 40th anniversary, PLASA Show returns to London Olympia, September 16 - 18, providing a stage for the world of entertainment technology. The show continues to explore the cutting edge of innovation and ...

Meteor Lighting Introduces Zeta 10 -- Aesthetically Designed Luminaire for High-End Architectural Applications

Meteor Lighting's Zeta 10 is a 10" downlight cylinder with a wide-ranging lumen package of 7,396 lm - 15,870 lm. Perfectly suited for 15' - 50' mounting height applications, this minimalistic and sleek luminaire adds a touch of ...

InfoComm 2018 Highlights Increasing Awareness for Alcons Audio

As the profile of Alcons Audio's pro-ribbon loudspeakers continues to grow, the awareness and level of respect within the industry is being highlighted by both business levels and interest at major trade shows. In early June, the ...

Nashville AES's 21st Annual AudioMasters Benefit Golf Tournament Tees Off to Great Success

Nashville recently hosted the 21st Annual AudioMasters golf tournament, raising over $35,000 for the Nashville Engineer Relief Fund (NERF), the benefactor of each year's tournament. Taking place over two days, this year's ...

NSCA Updates Labor Installation Standard Data for 2018

NSCA, the not-for-profit association representing the commercial low-voltage electronic systems industry, has released updated Labor Installation Standard guidelines for 2018, providing information that systems integrators ...

Neil Marsh Runs Uplifting Above & Beyond Tour with ChamSys MagicQ MQ500

It is very fitting that confetti plays a prominent role in Above & Beyond's global tour in support of their Common Ground album. Originating in northern Italy during the Middle Ages, confetti (literally "small sweet") became ...

Anolis for Sports Park Illumination in Sweden

Kungshamns is a picturesque coastal harbor town in the Sotenas Municipality in Sweden's Vasttra Gotaland province. The local city population of just over 3,000 more than doubles during the summer months with an influx of tourists who visit ...

Rat Sound Looks to Focusrite RedNet Technology for Innovative Solutions at Coachella and Stagecoach Festivals

An estimated 300,000-plus came to Coachella 2018, which took place April 13 - 22, to see and hear artists including Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Lion Babe, LANY, and Vance Joy. Meanwhile, sister festival Stagecoach, where artists such as ...

ROE Visual Launches the Air Frame, a Carbon Support Solution for LED Walls

ROE Visual Co. Ltd. yesterday launched the ROE Visual Air Frame, a lightweight carbon fiber touring system that is compatible with the ROE Carbon Series, specifically, the CB5 and CB8 panels.
The ROE Air Frame provides a ...

PR Lighting Announces the New Polaris IP67 LED Wash Luminaire

PR Lighting introduces the new Polaris, a bright and colorful IP67 LED wash luminaire designed for both indoor and outdoor use.
Equipped with seven 15W RGBW four-in-one SMT LED lamps, the Polaris is a powerful and compact color ...

ADJ Launches Four New Products at InfoComm 2018

Earlier this month -- June 6 thru 8 -- the pro-AV industry descended on Las Vegas, Nevada for the annual InfoComm trade show. The ADJ booth was busy from start to finish, attracting AV professionals from a wide variety of ...

Mackie Expands DL Series Lineup with Two New Models

Mackie announces two all-new DL Series digital mixers, the 16-channel DL16S and 32-channel DL32S wireless digital live sound mixers with built-in Wi-Fi for multi-platform control. Delivering performance and intuitive control, the ...

Esteemed Group of Tony Winners and Broadway Insiders Unite to Establish Open Jar Studios

Project manager Jeff Whiting, in partnership with several notable Broadway industry members, announces the plans to build Open Jar Studios, a new rehearsal space in Times Square for rehearsals, auditions, and support offices ...

Receive $100 off 2018 Vectorworks Design Summit Registration by Using the Promo Code: LSA18

Global design and BIM software solutions provider Vectorworks, Inc. invites professionals, educators, and students in the entertainment industry to attend the fourth annual Vectorworks Design Summit from November 4 to 6, 2018 ...

Vincent Lighting Systems Adds Durstock, Hope as 2018 Interns

Vincent Lighting Systems (VLS) announces the addition of two summer interns to its staff, as part of the VLS Internship Program for 2018.
Samantha Durstock has joined the team in its Cincinnati location. Durstock is ...

Arena Events Group Acquires Events Solution Limited

Arena Events Group plc announces it has once again expanded its product portfolio in the UK with the acquisition of Events Solution Ltd. The company's equipment range covers pedestrian, front of stage, and Metropolitan Police ...

Barrett Hall Gets Dynamic with Maverick MK Pyxis at Oath Digital Content NewFronts

The future was on full display in Manhattan early this May during Digital Content NewFronts, a week-long showcase for media buyers of the latest digital and video creations from the leading names in entertainment, news, and information ...

LynTec Eliminates AVL Power Complexities at Sterling High School

LynTec, a manufacturer of innovative electrical power control solutions for professional audio, video, and lighting systems, announces that its RPC remote power control panel series successfully met the AVL power distribution ...

Firefly Glows with Bandit Lites

he Firefly Music Festival wrapped this weekend with Bandit Lites once again providing the lighting package for multiple stages where more than 60,000 people took to the forest for the seventh year. The weekend's line up was packed ...

Airstar Illuminates Losail International Circuit for the MotoGP Grand Prix of Qatar

Located in the heart of the desert outside the capital of Doha, Losail International Circuit is among the best motor racing circuits in the Middle East. This world class venue hosts the Grand Prix of Qatar every year, one of the flagship ...

Theatre in Review: Conflict (Mint Theater Company/Theatre Row)

"Why do people belong to the Labour Party?" This question -- not facetious in context -- hangs over Miles Malleson's 1925 drawing room intrigue. Clearly, Malleson was a man of many parts -- actor, screenwriter, director, producer, ...

disguise's Latest Software Release Goes Gold

disguise announces the release of r15, the latest release of the company's award-winning software. Their integrated workflow solution is the ultimate tool to visualize, design, and sequence shows wherever the user is, from concept ...

QSC Adds Automatic Microphone Mixing to TouchMix-30 Pro

QSC, LLC announces the addition of Automatic Microphone Mixing (Auto Mix) to the company's popular TouchMix-30 Pro digital mixer. Providing two independent processors available to all of the mixer's 24 Mic/Line inputs, the easy-to ...

Penn Elcom's CROSS 5 Crosses the Line

CROSS 5 is the latest in a brand new range of high-performance cable protection "crossover" products launched by Penn Elcom this year ... a super-tough, durable, fire-retardant, aesthetically pleasing, and infinitely useful piece of ...

New York State Society of Professional Engineers Names McLaren's William Gorlin "Engineer of the Year"

The New York State Society of Professional Engineers (NYSSPE) awarded McLaren Engineering Group's vice president and entertainment division chief, William Gorlin, PE, SE, the "Engineer of the Year" award at its annual ...

Highway Marketing Receives Community's Rep of the Year Award

At this year's InfoComm show in Las Vegas held earlier this month, Community Professional Loudspeakers was pleased to present its Rep of the Year Award for 2017 to Highway Marketing. Highway Marketing is an independent ...

Seattle Community Church Selects New NEXO and Yamaha Sound System

Bethany Community Church (BCC) Green Lake in Seattle, Washington established itself in the early 1900s and now has a weekly attendance of approximately 3,000 people across six physical campuses and one on-line. They moved to the Green Lake ...

Shure Wireless Delivers Flawlessly at CMT Awards

Broadcast live on CBS from Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on June 6, the fan-voted 2018 CMT Awards featured a wide range of performances from country music's biggest stars. Featuring both indoor and outdoor stages, the event was ...

Elite Multimedia Forms a Cohesive Worship Experience for X. WKND

As part of LifeWay Christian Resources, LifeWay Students is dedicated to providing the tools necessary for an exciting and rewarding student ministry. With a series of summer camps that travel across the nation, the annual X. WKND kick-off ...

Eclipse Lighting and Sound Delivers Dazzling Lighting Displays with Harman Professional Solutions

Eclipse Lighting and Sound recently secured multiple Martin by Harman MAC Quantum fixtures from Show Technology to supply for music festivals, concerts, musical theatre shows, and more. ...

New Mo Ostin Basketball Center at UCLA Employs Bose Professional Sound Systems to Cover Its Diverse Spaces

UCLA's new Mo Ostin Basketball Center provides both the men's and women's programs an exclusive destination with everything from practice courts to video rooms to sports-medicine treatment areas. There are 11 individual spaces in the venue ...

Jack White Kicks Off Headlining Tour with Claypaky Sharpy Washes and grandMA2 Consoles along for the Ride

Jack White, frontman for The White Stripes and a top solo artist, has kicked off his headlining tour of North America and Europe with a large complement of Claypaky Sharpy Wash fixtures and two full-size MA Lighting grandMA2 ...

Multi-Campus Kensington Church Chooses Allen & Heath

Kensington Community Church recently upgraded its three fixed campuses in Michigan to Allen & Heath digital mixing systems. Each campus seats between 1,200 and 1,500 people and hosts two or three contemporary worship services every weekend ...

Adam Hall Group Opens Doors to Its New Experience Center with Grand Opening Celebration

On Thursday, June 14th an exclusive celebration for customers, industry partners, and employees worldwide heralded the official opening of the new Experience Center at the Adam Hall Group headquarters located in the Hessian town of ...

Theatre in Review: Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi Theater Company/The Public Theater)

For most of us, the adolescent years are filled with enough intrigue -- alliances, secrets, and betrayals -- for, well, one of William Shakespeare's history plays. Thus, the premise of Teenage Dick, Mike Lew's ...

VUE Unveils New hm-115 High Definition Stage Monitoring System

Following a successful preview at the InfoComm show earlier this month, VUE Audiotechnik introduces the hm-115 into its hm-Class of high definition stage monitoring systems. Slotting perfectly between the hm-112 and hm-212 in ...

Major Firmware Release for Outline's Unique "Newton"

Following its launch at Prolight + Sound Frankfurt in April, Outline is announces the availability of a major firmware upgrade for their Newton DSP hub. It is accompanied by a complementary release (v1.6) for their "Dashboard" ...

LMG Expands Team, Embraces LED Market Growth with Addition of Stuart Bertoluzzi and David Luchsinger

LMG, a national provider of video, audio, lighting, and LED support, is staying one step ahead of the booming LED business by welcoming Stuart Bertoluzzi, LED director, and David Luchsinger, LED services manager to the ...

Focusrite Pro Appoints Ted White as Global Marketing Manager

Focusrite Pro announces the appointment of Ted White to the role of global marketing manager. White returns to the Focusrite team having previously served as senior technical sales and product specialist for Focusrite's ...

Claypaky Scenius Unico Provides Eye-Opening Effects for Katy Perry's Witness: The Tour in Singapore

Singapore-based show production and equipment hire company The Show Company (ShowCo), supplied 120 Claypaky Scenius Unico fixtures for mega-star Katy Perry's dynamite performance at the Singapore Indoor Stadium as part of her ...

Moshe Kimchi Enjoys Halo RGB and MegaPointe

Moshe Kimchi is an Israeli lighting designer whose company, Moshe Kimchi Lighting Design, based in Jerusalem, has recently invested in Robe technology, with an initial purchase of 60 Halo RGB LED rings, quickly ...

AVI-SPL Hits Home Run with EAW Loudspeakers

George W. Steinbrenner Field, the spring home of the New York Yankees, has undergone a $40 million dollar renovation that includes a new Eastern Acoustic Work's (EAW) distributed loudspeaker system designed by Wrightson, Johnson, ...

Jakob Larsson Uses Full GLP Armory for Hov1

Swedish hip hop group, Hov1 recently played a series of mid-sized domestic venues of around 3,000 capacity on their first Until Next Time production tour.
Jakob Larsson was responsible for the lighting, drawing heavily on ...

All-Weather Elation Lighting for Alabama's Hangout Music Festival

Alabama's southern Gulf Coast was the scene of the Hangout Music Festival held May 18 - 20, where artists such as The Chainsmokers, Zedd, Halsy, ODESZA, Pussy Riot, and others performed beneath a Bandit Lites-supplied lighting ...

Specialz Point in The Killers' Direction

The latest incarnation of The Killers' stage set owes much to the band's Nevada heritage. As the band originally emerged from 20th century Las Vegas, the design was to reflect an image of the small towns that straddled the American West. ...

MDG at Grand Finale with Hofesh Shechter Company

Hofesh Shechter Company celebrated its 10th anniversary and kicked off the first day of Brighton Festival in May with a performance of Grande Finale, the latest original dance work from award-winning choreographer, Hofesh ...

Lightfair International 2018 Delivered Largest Footprint and Increased Registration over Last Year

Lightfair International (LFI) set a record at McCormick Place in Chicago May 6-10, 2018, with the largest trade show floor, and it increased registration over last year.
The trade show footprint spanned 285,600-net-sq.-ft. ...

Theatre in Review: Othello (The Public Theater at the Delacorte Theater)

For the current revival of Othello at the Delacorte, Ruben Santiago-Hudson has taken a radical approach: He has dispensed with any high-concept staging ideas, preferring to do the play straight up, using a set that ...

Theatre in Review: First Love (Cherry Lane Theatre)

It's time to steel ourselves for the rise of what must be called karaoke drama. A couple of weeks ago, Theater Breaking Through Barriers opened a revival of A. R. Gurney's The Fourth Wall, the action of which is punctuated by cast ...

ADB Adds a Host of Products, Enhanced Software, and a Direct Link with Users

A key element in the wide-ranging design and structural renewal at ADB is unquestionably the launch of a number of innovative new products. The innovations incorporate new technology, with products such as Klemantis and Oksalis, ...

Elation White Light Quality for World Team Table Tennis Championships 2018

Table tennis is serious business. When the 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships were held April 29 - May 6 in Halmstad, Sweden, the tournament attracted a worldwide viewer audience of 400 million. When a world championship is on the ...

Groundbreaking CSK Performance Space Chooses Robe

Centrum Spotkania Kultur (Centre for the Meeting of Cultures) -- "CSK" for short -- in the heart of Lublin, Poland's ninth largest city is an impressive and cool arts, performance, and culture venue opened in 2016. ...

Ayrton Brings New Innovations to Australia with Show Technology Open Houses

What do the world's successful inventors have in common? Innovation and ingenuity in bucket-loads! "Each new technological innovation begins in the same way," says Michael Althaus, Ayrton's global sales director. "Suddenly the world ...

Martin Audio Demo Tour Comes to Middle America

Following successful sorties in New York and California, the Martin Audio North American Demo Tour will take the stage at The Riverside Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 11 from 1:30 to 3:30pm. ...

Hangout Festival Surf Stage Gets Wave of Good Looks with Chauvet Professional

The Hangout Music Festival is very aptly named. Located on a beautiful sandy beach on the Gulf of Mexico with plenty of friendly people and colorful local scenery, the three-day event exudes the kind of laid-back atmosphere that invites ...

Judging Panels Announced for KOI 2018

The Knight of Illumination Awards, which in 2018 marks its 11th year of celebrating the achievements of UK show lighting and video designers in Television, Theatre, and Concert Touring & Events, welcomes eight new additions to its ...

Lucky Number 7 -- Allen & Heath Hits the Jackpot in Vegas!

Allen & Heath hit the jackpot at the 2018 InfoComm show. Its newly introduced SQ-7 Digital Mixer won a "Best of Show" award from NewBay Media's Pro Audio Group who noted its technical performance, value, versatility, and ...

Chicago Opera Taps Axient Digital for Jesus Christ Superstar

The first North American production of the acclaimed 2016 London revival of Jesus Christ Superstar took place at Chicago Lyric Opera for a four-week run. Billed as Lyric Opera's annual spring musical, this ambitious staging of the ...

PreSonus' WorxAudio Loudspeaker Technology Brings Message Clarity to Elevate Life Church

Under the leadership of Pastor Tim and Kristal Stair, Elevate Life Church (ELC) is a contemporary, non-denominational house of worship whose mission is to help guide worshippers as they encounter God, to embrace others, and ...

Delmar Loops Around to VUE Audio for The Pageant Audio Upgrade

Opened in 2000 as St. Louis' preeminent concert nightclub, The Pageant has quickly established itself as one of the country's premier mid-sized venues, attracting touring national acts in pop, indie rock, hip-hop, jazz, blues, and more. So ...

ARTOTEL Group Refines the Art of Hospitality with Harman Professional Solutions

CSA Indonesia recently equipped several ARTOTEL Group properties across Indonesia with complete audio solutions from Harman Professional Solutions.
Founded in 2010, ARTOTEL Group operates a brand of art-inspired hotels ...

DirectOut Adds EARS to EXBOX.MD Dante Interface

DirectOut Technologies has expanded the capabilities of its recently released EXBOX.MD Dante/MADI interface, with a major firmware and software update.
The German networking and pro audio specialist company previewed the updated ...

Penn Elcom Has the Power

Penn Elcom launches its new PDU16 range of premium rack-mounting power distribution: the PDU16-UN, the PDU16-EU, the PDU16-PC, and the PDU16-AV.
The innovative 2U high horizontal mounting PDU16 series has been developed to offer ...

Clear-Com Appointed Exclusive US Distributor for Broaman Audio and Video Signal Transport Solutions

Clear-Com announces its appointment as the exclusive US distributor of BroaMan audio, video transport, and routing solutions. Clear-Com demonstrated the latest BroaMan products, as well as Clear-Com's leading communication solutions ...

QSC TouchMix and K.2 Series Perform Eight Days a Week with Paul McCartney's Musical Director Wix Wickens

Performing in the band of original Beatle and cultural icon Sir Paul McCartney is the quintessential dream gig-one that requires serious perfectionism. Keyboardist and musical director Wix Wickens and ace keyboard tech Howa ...

PixelFLEX Meets the High Expectations of Mountain View Staging

Specializing in live production and event management, Mountain View Staging (MVS) creates events focused on the attendee experience. Dedicated to using the latest technology to provide a compelling and memorable platform of audience ...

Tod's Copley Place Relies on Bose to Create the Ambience for the Luxury Retailer's First US Location

The new Boston location of high-end Italian luxury goods retailer Tod's, located in the city's Copley Place, reflects the brand's new global concept, which combines a contemporary design aesthetic with solid elements of traditional Italian ...

NASA Selects Analog Way's VIO 4K Multi-Format Converters for Space Launch System Rocket

Analog Way announces that its VIO 4K powerful multi-format converters will be used as part of the ground video processing for cameras mounted on the first, or core, stage of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. ...

The Raveonettes' Sune Rose Wagner Crafts Sounds of Netflix Altered Carbon on Neumann KH 120 Monitors

Denmark-born and New York-based musician, composer, and producer Sune Rose Wagner is known by many for his work as one half of The Raveonettes, the seminal indie band with Sharin Foo that blends distorted '50's flavored rock with ...

As Gilmore Car Museum Expands, So Does Its Dante-Networked Ashly Audio Amplification and DSP Solutions

For automobile enthusiasts, history buffs, and anyone who's generally curious, the Gilmore Car Museum is the place to go. Located on ninety acres in the beautiful rural town of Hickory Corners, Michigan, the museum opened in 1966 with ...

AudioTek Upgrades the Sound for Newmarket Racecourse with Community

Newmarket Racecourse in Suffolk, England has undergone a major upgrade to its PA, with new systems designed and installed by leading integrator, AudioTek.
Known as the home of horse racing, and with a history spanning three and a half ...

Adamson IS-Series Delivers Optimal Solution for Life Challenge Church

Life Challenge Church in Odessa, TX, wowed its worship community with the unveiling of its completely renovated sanctuary in early 2018, and one of the key components is a state-of-the-art Adamson IS-Series audio system supplied and ...

Theatre in Review: Dan Cody's Yacht (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center Stage I)

In his previous play, The City of Conversation, Anthony Giardina used the living room of a prominent Washington, DC, hostess as a staging ground for the fall of postwar liberalism and the rise of the Ronald Reagan right. In

disguise Introduces the solo: Small. Light. Fast.

disguise announces the introduction of its newest server, solo, designed for the next generation of content creation.
solo brings the power of the disguise solution to smaller productions and experiences within theatre, fixed ...

EM Acoustics Introduces HALO-A Large Format Line Array

EM Acoustics revealed the HALO Arena large format line array system to the North American market at InfoComm 2018 in Las Vegas last week.
The larger HALO-A follows the same core design as the more compact HALO-C providing ...

Harman Professional Solutions Adds Support for Dante Domain Manager to BSS and Crown Devices

Harman Professional Solutions, a provider of networked audio, video, lighting, and control systems, announces the availability of Dante firmware version 4.0 for all Dante-enabled BSS and Crown devices. This ...

Support Backup with AmazonSmile

At the end of last year, Amazon launched AmazonSmile and invited registered charities to join. Backup has now become one of AmazonSmile's recipients, which makes it easy for the industry to support its favorite technical ...

Harlequin Floors New Distribution Center in Las Vegas Will Speed Up Delivery Time to Western US Customers

Harlequin Floors, a provider of advanced technology flooring for dance, performing arts, entertainment, and events, announces plans to open a distribution center in Las Vegas, Nevada, to better meet the delivery expectations of ...

WorldStage Debuts Christie Spyder X80s to Manage Adobe Summit's Immense Visual Canvas

Thousands of digital marketing professionals attending Adobe Summit 2018, the Digital Marketing Conference in Las Vegas, expected to be impressed by the keynotes and general sessions, and Adobe didn't disappoint. With speakers such as Sir ...

AV Stumpfl Helps to Breathe New Life into Ireland's Viking Heritage

Waterford -- Ireland's oldest city, founded by Norwegian pirates in 914 -- recently took a step back in time to its roots when it held its inaugural International Viking Festival and Roadshow over Easter. Taking place over three days, this ...

GVPmedia and Elation Provide Lighting Excitement for Ring of Honor Wrestling

Event production house GVPmedia, Inc. of Houston, Texas, is responsible for lighting Ring of Honor events, a popular pro wrestling touring circuit that incorporates high-flying wrestling with mixed martial arts. Ring of ...

Peter Greenbaum Adds Maverick MK Pyxis to Today Show Concert Rig

Innovation is nothing new at the Today Show. The first early morning news program, and one of the longest running shows on television (it debuted on January 14, 1952), this American icon has thrived by pioneering new concepts like ...

Elite Multimedia Goes Heavy-Duty with the Hino Trucks XL Series Launch

Drawing a record crowd of over 13,500 industry professionals, The Work Truck Show 2018 was the largest event in the history of the NTEA. Held inside the Indiana Convention Center, the event saw an unprecedented number of vehicle launches, ...

Drunk Unkles Event Breaks Industry Fundraising Record at InfoComm 2018

The NSCA Education Foundation announces that the Drunk Unkles' first 2018 fundraiser, held on June 6 at Vinyl in the Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas, generated $102,800 in industry support through a mix of personal donations, ...

Double Dose of MILOS Training in Czech Republic and China

MILOS was busy in April and May this year holding their annual Product Academy at both Milos s.r.o. (headquarters and factory) in Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic, and Milos (Guangzhou) Ltd. (factory) in Guangzhou, ...

Theatre in Review: All I Want is One Night (59E59)

Having turned up in recent years at 59E59 to hold forth about the tradition of male impersonators in the English music hall ("The Girl I Left Behind Me") and the travails of a certain postwar West End star (Pat Kirkwood is Angry),

Theatre in Review: Little Rock (Sheen Center)

In the second act of Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj's new play, a fifteen-year-old girl stands in an empty school auditorium singing the old Debbie Reynolds hit, "Tammy." It Is 1958, and she is Minnijean Brown, one of the Little ...

ESTA Plugfest Announces RDMnet Prototypes

The organizers of the ESTA Control Protocols Plugfest announce that RDMnet prototypes constructed to the most current version of draft standard E1.33, Transport of ANSI E1.20 (RDM) in an E1.31 environment, will be ...

"The Collaborator Party" Smashes Previous Attendance Records in Its Fourth Sold-Out Year

Today, The Collaborator Party, headed by theatrical sound designers Lindsay Jones and John Gromada, announced that their event was a complete sell-out for the fourth year in a row. The Collaborator Party is the ...

Lectrosonics Announces the Availability of Select Digital Hybrid Wireless Products in Expanded 941 - 960MHz

Lectrosonics announces the availability of a selection of Digital Hybrid Wireless microphone products now in the recently expanded 941MHz - 960MHz frequency band for the United States. Products available in this new band are focused ...

Fulcrum Acoustic Unveils the World's First Cardioid Coaxial Stage Monitor

Fulcrum Acoustic, creators of high-performance professional loudspeaker technologies, has launched its latest innovative product: the FW15 15" Coaxial Cardioid Stage Monitor. The FW15 is the world's first cardioid stage monitor ...

Acclaim Announces Production of the New Specification Grade Linear One Series Cove Fixtures -- USA Assembled

Since entering the market in 2003, Acclaim Lighting has become known well as a global solutions provider for innovative and advanced solid state lighting technology. Now the company announces its first production and deliveries of ...

Allen & Heath Gets Personal with SQ4You

Allen & Heath puts performers in control of their monitors with a new personal mixing app for its SQ mixers.
The SQ4You app is available for both Android and iOS and up to eight phones or tablets can be connected at the same time ...

Adam Vidaurri Named Lighting Director For 3G Productions

3G Productions Inc. announces the appointment of Adam Vidaurri as lighting director. An experienced and knowledgeable veteran of the industry, Vidaurri now assumes a leadership role in developing and growing the company's ...

Alteros, an Audio-Technica Company, Welcomes John Hart as National Sales Director

Alteros, an Audio-Technica company, continues its commitment to enhancing sales and support in the United States with the appointment of industry veteran John Hart to the position of national sales director. In this ...

d&b audiotechnik Highlights Big Line Arrays and Choosing Colorways

InfoComm 2018 may be over for another year, but memories of the Las Vegas show last week are lingering a little longer than usual for some. Visitors to the d&b audiotechnik booth and demo room are returning home with ...

L-Acoustics Brings Nice Sound to Mean Girls

Hamilton. The Book of Mormon. Billy Elliot. The Producers. Every few years, a Broadway musical comes along that absolutely sweeps critics and audiences off their feet. This year, that production is Mean Girls, the stage ...

Bonnaroo Parties with Bandit Lites

Bandit Lites returned to The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival for another epic weekend of stellar music, comradery, and community with activities including a silent disco, yoga, comedy acts, mouthwatering food, a marketplace, and a ...

Protec Europe Delivers "Xerox Forum 2018" in Warsaw

Protec European Events partnered up with their client Xerox once again to deliver the audio, lighting, video, and rigging at the Xerox Forum 2018 held in Warsaw, Poland. This event, held in the Doubletree Hilton from May 22 - 24, ...

A Discovery in Transformation -- Bartkresa studio Projection Maps the California Science Center Discovery Ball

The Space Shuttle Endeavour, a retired NASA orbiter, completed 25 missions, traveling a total distance of more than 1.2 million miles. Bartkresa studio (BKS) found a kinship in this intergalactic traveler, as its team comes from ...

Theatre in Review: Desperate Measures (New World Stages)

Last season's sleeper musical has transferred from York Theatre Company to New World Stages in fine fettle, with most of its original cast and all of its laughs intact. It's hard to believe anyone ever picked up Measure for Measure ...

Theatre in Review: Half Time (Paper Mill Playhouse)

Jerry Mitchell has become so successful that even he is now turning out school-of-Jerry Mitchell shows. That the director-choreographer's latest project could have been called The Full Monty: The AARP Edition isn't ...

RC4 Wireless Is Granted a Pixel Control Patent

RC4 Wireless, a privately held firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina, announces the issue of patent US9924584B2 by the US Patent Office. The patent covers a method of pixel control -- keyframing and RC4 Custom Pixel Profiles (CPP) - ...

Countryman Associates Debuts H7 Headset Microphone

Countryman Associates, a manufacturer of miniature microphones and direct boxes, introduces the H7 Headset Microphone. Featuring wide dynamic range and a precision cardioid pattern that effectively shuts out surrounding noise, the ...

Radio Active Designs Debuts CP-1V VHF Antenna

The new CP-1V Circular Polarized Antenna from Radio Active Designs is a leap forward in RF technology that provides end users with a compact (18" square) antenna that covers the entire VHF wireless microphone band of 174MHz - 216MHz ...

MDG RFP Round Floor Pocket Named ABTT Engineering Product of the Year 2018

MDG is delighted to receive the ABTT Award for Engineering Product of the Year 2018 for its RFP Round Floor Pocket at last week's ABTT Show at London's Alexandra Palace.
MDG's RFP Round Floor Pocket is a DMX/RDM ...

Elation Lights Floyd Central HS Production of Newsies

Southern Indiana's Floyd Central High School puts a special emphasis on the performing arts, a focus that has produced one of America's premiere high school theatre programs. Last year, Floyd Central was one of a handful of schools across ...

disguise Support Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' Stranded on the Earth World Tour

English rock band Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds launched its Stranded on the Earth world tour with two disguise 4x4pro media servers driving big screen visuals.
The tour kicked off in Detroit in February and is now ...

GLP's X4 Bars Show their Theatrical Mettle

GLP's impression LED fixtures recently demonstrated that in addition to raw power, the advantages of multi-functionality and subtlety are paramount when it comes to lighting dramatic performance in smaller theatre venues. ...

Jacob Dinesen Counts the Mega Ways with Robe

Young Danish singer, guitarist, and chart-topping rising star Jacob Dinesen played two spectacular arena shows to kick off his 2018 summer tour, one in his home region of Aabenraa and one in Copenhagen ... with Robe MegaPointes and ...

Sean Keegan Gets Creative with ChamSys at Gypsy Sally's

Creativity flourishes at Gypsy Sally's, whether it's in the kitchen, which serves up unique gastronomical delights like flatbread topped with mascarpone cheese, fig jam, caramelized onions, and prosciutto; or on its live music stage. The ...

Outline Ready for Kick-Off at Ekaterinburg

As the eyes of the soccer world turn towards Russia for the 2018 World Cup, those fans lucky enough to watch games at one stadium in particular will enjoy state-of-the-art audio reinforcement for such a venue. ...

Claypaky and grandMA2 Help Paul Guthrie Give a Modern Edge to the Hall & Oates and Train Summer Legacy Tour

Hall & Oates have hit the road with Train co-headlining a North American tour playing arenas from coast to coast this summer. Lighting designer Paul "Arlo" Guthrie from Minneapolis, Minnesota-based TOSS Film & Design Inc. has ...

Ayrton Ghibli Lights Up Amadeus in Seoul

Tongsuh Technology Co., Ltd., Ayrton's exclusive distributor for Korea, recently sold 12 Ayrton Ghibli LED spot luminaires to Art Won+ Stage Lighting Co., Ltd. for its production of Peter Schaffer's Amadeus, ...

Renkus-Heinz Delivers Clarity at St. John Lutheran Church

St. John Lutheran Church began in 1877, just ten years after Nebraska was admitted to the union, but its current building -- its fourth -- opened in 1968 in Seward. A sound system was installed in 2000, which was based on point-source ...

tarm Showlaser Highlighted the Most Extraordinary Truck Launch in the UAE

The new Mercedes-Benz Actros and Arocs trucks launched in the Middle East and Africa in magnificent style with Germany-based tarm Showlaser GmbH.
The regional launch of the new generation of heavy-duty trucks -- the new Mercedes ...

Theatre in Review: Everyone's Fine With Virginia Woolf (Elevator Repair Service/Abrons Arts Center)

It is, of course, inevitable: Yesterday's iconoclast must become part of the establishment and, therefore, ripe for overturning. When Edward Albee wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, in 1962, many theatregoers were shocked and ...

The Band's Visit, Harry Potter Sweep Tony Awards

The Band's Visit was the big winner at the Tony Awards, held last night at Radio City Music Hall. The musical, a relatively brief, elliptical piece about the members of an Eqyptian police band who get stranded in a one-horse Israeli ...

TSDCA Releases Its Statement on Women+ in Sound Design for Broadway and Theatres across the Country

The Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA) release their statement on Women+ in Sound Design for Broadway and theatres across the country:
"It is with great excitement that the members of TSDCA congratulate ...

L-Acoustics Partners with Avid on L-ISA

L-Acoustics announces the development of an AAX DSP version of its L-ISA Source Control plug-in for the popular Avid VENUE | S6L console's control surface, allowing sound engineers an expanded range of consoles in which they ...

ADJ's New IP65 Rated LED HEX Pars Offer More Colors in More Places

ADJ announces the expansion of its popular HEX series of LED pars with the introduction of three durable new fixtures that all feature a tough weatherproof casing design. The 7P HEX IP, 12P HEX IP, and 18P HEX IP combine the wide ...

Dry Hire Lighting Invests in Robe MegaPointes

UK-based cross rental facility Dry Hire Lighting, based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, has invested in over 50 of Robe's popular MegaPointe moving lights ... which will be added to their already substantial stock of the ...