 Registration Now Open for 2017 Vectorworks Design Summit
Global design and BIM software developer Vectorworks, Inc. invites professionals, educators, and students in the AEC, landscape, and entertainment industries to attend the third annual Vectorworks Design Summit from September ... 
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 Purple Rain of Flares at the Grammys
The 59th annual Grammy Awards last month was a confluence of stunning performances, controversies, and surprises. In collaboration with production designer Brian Stonestreet, lighting designers Bob Dickinson and Noah ... 
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 Theatre in Review: Church & State (New World Stages)
We're starting to see a trend of playwrights who are determined to play serious issues for laughs, papering over painful material with sunny, good-time theatrical devices -- with results that are almost always awkward. Angry Young Man 
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 ESTA's Technical Standards Program Full E1.6 Suite is Open for Revision
Two Rigging Working Group standards have been announced as open for revision: E1.6-3, Selection and Use of Serially Manufactured Chain Hoists in the Entertainment Industry, and E1.6-4, Portable Control of Fixed-Speed ... 
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 Clear-Com FreeSpeak II to be Featured at StudioXperience Venue during NAB 2017
Clear-Com's FreeSpeak II wireless digital intercom system will be featured as hands-on technology for delegates to try at Waskul.TV's StudioXperience booth (SL2424) during NAB 2017. "StudioXperience is Waskul.TV's 'travelli ... 
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 TLS Productions Uses Elation Lighting on Award-Winning Toyota Booth at CES
In January, Toyota unveiled its futuristic Concept-i vehicle at the CES consumer electronics show at an award-winning booth lit using Elation Professional Platinum FLX hybrid moving heads and Colour Chorus series LED battens. ... 
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 Najafi Design Group Lights Up Laughs with Chauvet Professional at Riot LA Festival
Everyone can use a good laugh nowadays, and for four days and nights earlier this year, the people of Southern California were treated to a bushel full of them at the fifth annual Riot LA Comedy Festival. Even a very un-SoCal-like ... 
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 Point Source Audio Selected as Exclusive Comms Headset for Carolina Panthers' Panther Vision Production Team
The Carolina Panthers' critically acclaimed in-house production team known as Panther Vision will standardize on Point Source Audio's CM-i3 Comms Headset for its camera team to ensure consistency in audio levels between the ... 
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 Prolyte Welcomes New Distribution Partner in Germany
Huss Licht & Ton has become a distribution partner for Prolyte in Germany. Starting to sell trussing and stage decks, the company aims to become a full-fledged Prolyte distributor, offering their customers the complete Prolyte ... 
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 Theatre in Review: How to Transcend a Happy Marriage (Lincoln Center Theater/Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater)
Extramarital affairs can be very messy things -- you don't need me for nuggets of wisdom -- but must plays about them be so messy, too? Consider the case of How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, in which two couples suddenly ... 
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 Elation Lights to Feature on Musikmesse Center Stage at Prolight + Sound
After seeing the latest Elation Professional lighting products at stand F60/61 in Hall 4 at the April 4 - 7 Prolight + Sound exhibition in Frankfurt, visitors won't have far to go to see Elation lighting in action on a full ... 
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 Two ESTA Standards in Public Review
Two ESTA Technical Standards Program draft standards have been posted for public review at http://estalink.us/pr. Descriptions and deadlines for comments are as follows: BSR E1.14 -- 2001 (R201x), Entertainment Technology -- ... 
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 The Meyer Sound Tie-Dyed Ticket Contest
Meyer Sound is launching a special social media contest as part of the continued celebration of the meeting of founders John and Helen Meyer 50 years ago during San Francisco's famed "Summer of Love." ... 
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 Alcons LR18 Nominated for 2017 PIPA Award
The technical and audio quality of Alcons Audio's LR18 mid-sized line array has been recognized by a nomination in the Concert Sound category of the annual Prolight + Sound International Press Awards (PIPAs). ... 
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 First-Ever LED Ellipsoidal Shootout a Big Success
In mid-March, 50 lighting industry professionals pulled on their boots and overcame mounds of plowed snow to Boston to see the first ever Ellipsoidal Leko Shootout produced by USITT and hosted by High Output. Seven companies ... 
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 Wroclaw Olympic Stadium Redevelopment for World Games Includes Community Loudspeakers
The historical Olympic Stadium in Wroclaw, Poland has been sympathetically refurbished and modernized, under a redevelopment plan that included substantial new construction. The opportunity for the project came as a result of Wroclaw being ... 
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 Pliant Technologies Announces Grupo Audio Diseño as Mexico Distributor
Pliant Technologies, the new professional division of CoachComm, has named Grupo Audio Diseño as its new distributor in Mexico. Grupo Audio Diseño will help Pliant increase regional support for its customers as well as ... 
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 Claypaky and Illuminate Productions Shine at Kingdom Invasion 2017
Illuminate Productions provided creative and technical production once again for Kingdom Invasion 2017. Almost 10,000 people from 37 nations converged upon Singapore's Changi Expo, March 14 - 17, for the popular Christian conference ... 
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 Theatre in Review: 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (St. Ann's Warehouse)
For this exercise in what might be called children's theatre for all, Emma Rice and her crew at the theatre company Kneehigh have teamed up with the author Michael Morpurgo, who also wrote the novel War Horse, the ... 
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 4Wall Nashville Launches New Rehearsal Space
4Wall Nashville is expanding its services to clients with an all-new 29,000-sq.-ft. rehearsal space. The rehearsal space is connected to 4Wall Nashville's current facility providing easy access to lighting equipment as well as any ... 
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