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  Morris Light and Sound Rents Clay Paky, MA Lighting Gear to Variety of Projects
Murfreesboro, Tennessee-based equipment 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 ...
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Dark Star Lighting & Production Opts for Lectrosonics' Quadra
Essex Alliance Church, headquartered in Essex, Vermont, is one of the largest non-denominational churches in the state. Each week, the church typically conducts four services to accommodate its congregation of roughly 4,000 ...
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Dual Allen & Heath iLive Systems Tour with Clare Maguire
The UK singing sensation Clare Maguire recently completed a tour of the UK carrying a dual Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system to manage front-of-house and monitors.
Partly rented from PA company, SRD Group, ...
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The RapcoHorizon Company Rocks Out at The Pageant Club
The RapcoHorizon Company's RoadHog cables are used by almost every artist who hits the stage at The Pageant concert nightclub in St. Louis. The venue's audio crew relies on the RoadHog microphone and guitar cables in ...
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Renkus-Heinz Provides Serene Sound for St. Benedict's Monastery
A short drive from Aspen, Colorado, St. Benedict's Monastery reflects the natural serenity of its majestic surroundings. Nestled in a valley on several thousand acres in western Colorado's Elk Mountains, it offers ...
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Global Truss America Issues Statement Regarding Brand Name
In the wake of a competitor issuing claims that it is the authorized distributor of Global Truss products in the United States and Canada, Global Truss America has issued the following statement. ...
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Rosco Offers to Share the Swag if You Share the Work
Did you ever go to a performance and think to yourself, what a great lighting effect. I wish I knew how the designer did it. What colors were used? Which gobos? What does a director ask of the designer to get an effect like that? ...
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Sennheiser Achieves Record Turnover
Sennheiser Electronic GmbH & Co. KG published its financial statement for the business year 2010, reporting an increased turnover of 468.2 million Euros, compared to 389.9 million Euros last year. This corresponds to an ...
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Theatre in Review: All's Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare in the Park)
So many times, when writing about productions of Shakespeare, we fault the director, saying, in effect, that he or she isn't worthy of our greatest playwright. In the case of the current revival of All's Well That Ends Well ...
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Showtex Supplies Waterproof Drapes with Integrated Water Resistant LEDS For Take That Progress Live Tour
May 27th marked the kickoff of Take That's European Progress Live Tour 2011. Just over 54.000 people attended the opening concert at Sunderland's Stadium.
This highly anticipated tour is the first time the band is back ...
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Quinze Points of Light for Robert Juliat at Eurovision 2011
The 56th Eurovision Song Contest 2011 final took place in May at the Fortuna Dusseldorf Arena in Germany. Twenty-five countries competed for the honor of winning one of the world's most celebrated song competitions in front ...
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Sapsis Rigging Provides Rigging Package for Third Annual Castleton Festival.
Sapsis Rigging, Inc. (SRI) designed and installed a self-climbing truss rig for the third annual Castleton Festival, which is being held in Castleton, Virginia now through July 24.
SRI installed a truss rig inside the ...
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4Wall New York Sponsors "Skate for Love" Cancer Benefit
4Wall New York recently donated entertainment lighting for Skate for Love, a figure skating and entertainment exhibition benefitting the Susan G. Komen cancer foundation. The event was the brainchild of competitive ...
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Robe Makes Summer Night Impact at Schönbrunn Palace
Lighting designer Helmut Krammer used over 100 Robe fixtures -- a mixture of moving lights and units from Robe's LED series -- for the 2011 Summer Night Concert, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra ...
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Dallas Mavericks "Go Bigger" for Championship Parade
It's no surprise that Mark Cuban would pull out all the stops when his Dallas Mavericks finally earned their first NBA title. So, when Dirk Nowitzki, Jason Kidd, Jason Terry and the rest of the NBA champions ...
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Hippotizer at Cellcom Volume Festival, Jerusalem
April saw a first in festivals: The Cellcom Volume Festival, an interactive social media event, had the entire audience logging on from home via their webcams to watch 11 concerts over a period of five days. ...
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2011 Lumen Awards Winners Announced at 43rd Annual Lumen Gala
Hundreds of acclaimed lighting leaders gathered at New York's Chelsea Piers on June 8 to celebrate the winners of the 2011 Lumen Awards at the 43rd Annual Lumen Gala. Hosted by the New York City Section of the ...
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IATSE Local 8 Celebrates Grand Opening of New $6 Million Education Training Facility with Big Bash
The International Association of Theatrical and Stage Employees Local 8 (IATSE) recently celebrated the grand opening of its new $6 million Education and Training Center at 2401 Swanson Street in South Philadelphia. The state-of ...
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UNCSA Hosts Third Annual Entertainment Innovation Conference
Officials at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) have announced the school's third annual Entertainment Innovation Conference (EIC). Formerly known as the Southeast Regional Entertainment ...
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Theatre in Review: Unnatural Acts (Classic Stage Company)
In 2002, Amit Paley, a student reporter at Harvard, discovered in the university's archive a set of suppressed documents that proved to be a treasure trove of scandal; they related to the history of a "secret court" convened in 1920 to ...
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