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(1/28/2011)

-StageCo Sued Over Tower Collapse

StageCo Sued Over Tower Collapse

StageCo has been sued in Texas state court by Christie Lites for damages sustained when a 90' lighting tower erected by StageCo collapsed prior to a nationally televised motocross event at the Fort Worth Stockyards in June, ...More

(1/28/2011)

-Philips Vari-Lite Continues to Expand In the Middle East

Philips Vari-Lite Continues to Expand In the Middle East

Philips Vari-Lite has announced delivery of 42 VL3500 Wash and 30 VL3000 Spot luminaires to Production Technology, located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for use on lighting productions throughout the Middle East. Since ...More

(1/28/2011)

-Lectrosonics to Co-Sponsor Wireless Theatre Presentation

Lectrosonics to Co-Sponsor  Wireless Theatre Presentation

Lectrosonics is co-sponsoring the forthcoming webinar "Wireless Theatre: Optimizing Systems for Vocal Clarity." Schedule for Tuesday, February 8 at 2pm Eastern / 11am pacific is free (after registering). ...More

(1/28/2011)

-LAB X Technologies Issues AVB IP License to Avid

LAB X Technologies Issues AVB IP License to Avid

Lab X Technologies has issued a solution integration license of its AVB Audio IP Platform to Avid for development of an IEEE 802.1 Audio Video Bridging (AVB)-based technology. Showcasing their AVB proof of concept at Integ ...More

(1/28/2011)

-Wildfire Inc. Supplies UV Fixtures to Tokyo Disneyland for Toy Story Mania!

Wildfire Inc. Supplies UV Fixtures to Tokyo Disneyland    for Toy Story Mania!

Wildfire Inc., the maker UV (ultraviolet, aka "black light") effects for theatre, themed entertainment, and visitor attractions, has supplied Tokyo Disneyland with 137 Wildfire long-throw 250W UV lighting fixtures (model LT ...More

(1/28/2011)

- AVS Production Group Chooses Yamaha PM5D-EX System For Marc Anthony Tour

 AVS Production Group Chooses Yamaha PM5D-EX System For Marc Anthony Tour

Marc Anthony recently completed the US leg of a tour in support of his latest album of Spanish ballads, Iconos released in 2010.
The U.S. tour began in New York City at Madison Square Garden and wrapped up in ...
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(1/28/2011)

-Soundcraft at Niagara County Community College Theatre

Soundcraft at Niagara County Community College Theatre

Ronco Specialized Systems, Inc. recently installed and revamped the theatre at Niagara County Community College's (NCCC) in Sanborn, New York with a Harman-based audio system, leading with a Soundcraft Si3 digital ...More

(1/28/2011)

-Gearhouse SA Celebrates New Age Friendship

Gearhouse SA Celebrates New Age Friendship

Over 40,000 excited cricket fans packed the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, South Africa, to see India clinch victory over the Proteas (South Africa) in Sunday's Standard Bank International Pro20 cricket tournament, in ...More

(1/28/2011)

-Trinity Lutheran Church In Minnesota Updates with DiGiCo SD9

Trinity Lutheran Church In Minnesota Updates with DiGiCo SD9

There has been a slew of house-of-worship installs in major metropolitan areas of the country utilizing SD8 and SD9 consoles of late, but DiGiCo consoles of any variety aren't limited exclusively to the bright lights of the big ...More

(1/28/2011)

-Point Source Audio at t Lanier Charter Career Academy

Point Source Audio at t Lanier Charter Career Academy

Lanier Charter Career Academy (LCCA), in Georgia's Hall County, is a unique vocational training opportunity open to all high school students in the district. The hospitality industry factors prominently in the regional economy so ...More

(1/27/2011)

-Audinate and ZP Engineering Extend Collaboration

Audinate and ZP Engineering Extend Collaboration

ZP Engineering has become the first Audinate authorized distributor and engineering partner in EMEA.
"We're very excited that ZP Engineering has stepped up to become our first authorized distributor and engineering ...
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(1/27/2011)

-RapcoHorizon Company Secures 27 New Artist Endorsements

RapcoHorizon Company Secures  27 New Artist Endorsements

The RapcoHorizon Company, a manufacturer of audio/video interfacing and cable equipment, announces that 27 performing artists, including Drive By Truckers, the Charlie Daniels Band, Matt and Kim, Underoath and the Randy ...More

(1/27/2011)

-Robe on Czech/Slovak Got Talent Series

Robe on Czech/Slovak Got Talent Series

The Czech and Slovak Republics pooled their resources in the rollout of the Got Talent TV series which was staged in Exhibition Hall Z of the Brno Exhibition Centre, Czechoslovakis, and by the Slovakian lighting designer < ...More

(1/27/2011)

-Vari*Lite Gives to The Gift of Christmas

Vari*Lite Gives to The Gift of Christmas

As worship leaders prepared for the Christmas season, many were creating elaborate and beautifully designed productions that rival touring productions normally seen from the likes of a Broadway production house. When Prestonwood ...More

(1/27/2011)

-Theatre in Review: The New York Idea (Atlantic Theatre/Lucille Lortel Theatre)

Theatre in Review: The New York Idea (Atlantic Theatre/Lucille Lortel Theatre)

The emergence of the New Woman and the mania for divorce rocks New York society in David Auburn's gloss on Langdon Mitchell's 1906 comedy. Originally a vehicle for Mrs. Fiske, one of the era's great leading ladies -- her ...More

(1/27/2011)

-Theatre in Review: Other Desert Cities (Lincoln Center Theatre/Mitzi Newhouse Theatre)

Theatre in Review: Other Desert Cities (Lincoln Center Theatre/Mitzi Newhouse Theatre)

"The time to make up your mind about people is never," wrote Philip Barry. They're words that Jon Robin Baitz has seemingly taken to heart in Other Desert Cities, and the result is, far and away, his best play in ...More

(1/27/2011)

-Martin MAC 101s for Riverside Studios, London

Martin MAC 101s for Riverside Studios, London

Riverside Studios, on the banks of the River Thames in Hammersmith, London, was looking for a suitable alternative to PAR cans and scrollers, "something equating to an expensive show run hire," according to Ruari Cormack, ...More

(1/27/2011)

-PR Lighting at French Quarry

PR Lighting at French Quarry

The French company, Budillon Rabatel has invested €15million ($20.5m) in upgrading its alluvial quarry at Izeaux, in southeastern France. For the special inauguration, the company called upon sound, light, and video specialists, More

(1/27/2011)

-Midas Digital Systems Installed into Guangzhou Opera House

Midas Digital Systems Installed into Guangzhou Opera House

Located in the new city of Pearl River, the Guangzhou Opera House has become one of China's three biggest theatres. Constructed from 12,000 tons of steel on a 70,000 sq. m. site, the Opera House includes 1,800-seat and 400-seat ...More

(1/27/2011)

- Clay Paky in Switzerland on Notre-Dame de Paris and the Starlight Circus

 Clay Paky in Switzerland on Notre-Dame de Paris and the Starlight Circus

Notre-Dame de Paris was staged at Palazzetto Fevi, Locarno, Switzerland by the SFG Biasca gymnastic company. It was performed by 52 gymnasts and six actors, who sung live over original backing tracks by Riccardo ...More

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