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  Theatre in Review: Happy Days (Theatre @ Boston Court/The Flea Theater)
"Another heavenly day." It's one of the most unbeatable opening lines in dramatic literature, not least because it is delivered by a woman buried up to her chest. She is Winnie, the indomitably cheery housewife who ritually counts her ...
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Theatre in Review: Of Good Stock (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center Stage I)
There's been a healthy debate lately about the lack of opportunities for women playwrights, with the group known as The Kilroys publishing lists of new works by women that should be seen. The debate seems to be paying off; last season saw ...
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AES Announces Program Details for 59th International Conference
The AES 59th International Conference, with an emphasis on sound reinforcement engineering and technology, is fast approaching. Program details have been announced for the event, taking place July 15 - 17, 2015, at McGill University ...
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USITT Tech Expo Catalog Offers Backstage Solutions
USITT's 2015 Tech Expo spotlighted 18 ingenious theatre tech solutions, now collected in catalog form as a resource for technical directors and theatrical designers everywhere.
This year's top three award-winning projects all ...
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Eighteen Sound Appoints Rat Sound Pro Provider in US
Eighteen Sound Srl of Reggio Emilia, Italy, has appointed Rat Sound Systems, Inc. as a pro provider in the United States. The announcement was made by Jeffrey Cox, director of sales, North America, for Eighteen Sound.
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Major Launch of ProLyft Service Points in Latin America
With the conclusion of an intensive week of training, Prolyte can announce to have added no less than four ProLyft Service Points to its already extensive network.
Last week, product engineer, Jasper van der Sluis trained ...
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French Electro Festival Crowds Revel in Harman's JBL VTX Line Arrays across Five Stages
As part of a major Harman Professional package, over 100 JBL VTX V25 line array elements were deployed across five stages at the recent four-day Weather Festival of electronic music in Paris. Celebrating its third year, the ...
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NEC's Jordan Hall Articulates with Fulcrum Acoustic
Since its founding in 1867, the New England Conservatory (NEC) has earned a reputation as one of the world's finest music schools. Built in 1903, Jordan Hall has become the heart of the conservatory. With performances by leading soloists ...
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Enter Shikari Hits Festival Circuit Hard with Custom Light Initiative Set
After their busy Mindsweep UK tour, high-octane alternative rockers Enter Shikari have hit the festival circuit hard, with lighting designer Steven Bewley taking his custom Light Initiative set to outdoor locations ...
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Chris Young and Bandit Lites Tour Country
Grammy-nominated country singer Chris Young is on the road bringing his show winning sounds to fans around the country with lighting provided by Bandit Lites.
Production manager and lighting director Mike Stanley ...
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Robe Takes a Ride at Liseberg
Legendary Liseberg -- with its giant wooden-tracked "Balder" roller-coaster that dominates Gothenburg's skyline -- is one of the most visited amusement parks in Scandinavia, attracting around three million visitors a year. Opened in 1923, ...
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Theatre in Review: Doctor Faustus (Classic Stage Company)
In Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe condemned his title character to hell. In Andrei Belgrader's production, Faustus is sent to Hellzapoppin'. Indeed, so much is going on, and so little of it has ...
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OISTAT Announces the International Lighting Symposium in Hong Kong September 29 - October 4, 2015
Now that the PQ is over, lighting designers are now looking forward to the International Lighting Design Symposium to be held in Hong Kong September 29- October 4, 2015. The organizers, the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts ...
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Three More European Rental Companies Endorse New Meyer Sound LEOPARD
Meyer Sound has received three more orders for its new LEOPARD line array loudspeaker system from Megasound Sonorisation in Switzerland, Aukes Theatertechniek in the Netherlands, and DMS PRO in Poland. The three ...
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Capital, Martin Audio MLA, and Wild Life Help Establish New Festival Site
Although the weekend of June 6 - 7 wasn't the first time London-based Capital Sound deployed almost 200 Martin Audio MLA elements simultaneously on major festival duty, it was unique in that one of those two events took place ...
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Las Vegas Academy of the Arts Tells a Popular Love Story with DPA Microphones
DPA Microphones' d:screet 4071 Omnidirectional Miniature Microphone recently played a big role during the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts (LVA) production of Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida, providing both leads with a ...
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San Antonio's Tobin Center for the Performing Arts Debuts with Dual DiGiCo Desks
San Antonio, already the seventh-largest city in Texas, is poised to become its fifth largest, as a pending 66-square-mile expansion that could add more than 200,000 people to its population over the next six years nears likely approval. ...
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Pixel Mapped Nexus Panels Brighten "Homecoming Concert" for Luis Fonsi
The Luis Fonsi Somos Uno tour has criss-crossed the globe with stops in France, Spain, and the US, but for the Puerto Rican-born Grammy-winning artist, it was home when he performed for two sell out nights at the Coliseo de Puerto ...
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Firehouse Productions Gives iHeartRadio Country Festival A-List Treatment with JBL and Crown
For the second year in a row, Firehouse Productions provided sound reinforcement for the iHeartRadio Country Festival, held at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas. And just like last year, Firehouse used its Harman's JBL ...
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Children's Musical Theatre Meets Artistic and Personal Goals with Clear-Com Communication Systems
San Jose, California-based Children's Musical Theatre (CMT San Jose), a non-profit children's theatre that specializes in training and educating today's youth through musical theatre, has upgraded its communication systems with a Clear ...
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