Each year, PLSN honors regional lighting production companies with our Hometown Hero award. This award honors the best regional lighting production company in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest, and Canada. This award—from nominations to winners—is selected by you, the entertainment technology industry, because you truly know who the Hometown Heroes are in the industry.
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Lighting Designer Daniel Knipper used 24 CHAUVET Professional Ovation Rêve E-3 IP LED ellipsoidals in his transformative design for the six-century-old Strasbourg Cathedral located in Place de la Cathédrale in Strasbourg, France. The full-spectrum color-mixing fixtures, which were supplied by XEOS, were hung on two porticos that flanked the façade. This arrangement allowed Knipper to highlight the architectural details of the façade by creating gobos based on digital photos.
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Broadway’s ‘Illinoise’ is an awe-inspiring dance musical derived from the 2006 Sufjan Stevens album of the same name. The four-time Tony nominated show is lit by Lighting Designer Brandon Stirling Baker. Illinoise runs the show on an Eos Ti, programmed by Jeff Englander. Stirling Baker’s joyous lighting design earned him a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut.
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Girls Aloud are back on the road for the first time in 11 years, with their Girls Aloud Show tour, a lively, edgy, pop-tastic collage of foot tapping hits, creatively directed by Beth Honan and lit by Peter Barnes. Lighting, video, automation and rigging equipment – including some new innovations – and crew are all supplied by PRG UK to Production North, whose unfazable Iain Whitehead is overseeing all related technical production elements.
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Stepping into the world of Raw Cereal means diving into a realm of creativity and cutting-edge technology. The global creative and production studio with the intriguing name creates immersive live experiences for some of the world’s best-known artists, with one of the hottest names in country music, Lainey Wilson, thrilling fans with Raw Cereal-designed shows that include Elation RAYZOR series lights.
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Flames, lasers, and lights fired up the night sky at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in the UK as Arcadia launched its amazing new “Dragonfly” spectacular concept. Lighting included Robe’s new iBOLTS, a laser-source searchlight style moving light, and iPointe65s – an IP65 version of Robe’s MegaPointe moving light – as a part of the over 200 lights illuminating the Arcadia Arena.
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INFiLED has introduced its cutting-edge ArmorLED Technology, setting a new standard for the durability and reliability of LED screens. This breakthrough technology boasts 3-5 times the thrust of standard LEDs, effectively mitigating the risks of damage during operation, installation, or transportation. This innovative approach not only elevates screen performance but also lowers maintenance costs, reinforcing INFiLED’s dedication to providing dependable LED display solutions.
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The Royal Theater Carré (Koninklijk Theater Carré) is in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Founded in 1887, it was originally built as a permanent venue for the Carré circus family and their popular ‘horse-play’ circus-theatre shows, but was later repurposed to also stage a variety of performances, revue theatre and operettas. Currently, the auditorium is used for a mix of musicals, pop and music concerts, and cabaret shows. The auditorium lighting has recently received an upgrade with the existing lighting replaced by Anolis Ambiane XP56 LED fixtures fitted with 20° lenses.
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In the spring of 2024, the city of Riyadh welcomed Zarqa Al Yamama, the first grand opera in Arabic and first operatic work produced by… Read More »The Modulo Kinetic Media Server Drives Saudi Arabia’s First Opera
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PROLIGHTS products have been used to illuminate the facade of the Fez Smart Factory in Fez, Morocco, a key site in the program for technological and eco-sustainable development of the local industries, led by the Université Euro Méditerranéenne de Fès (UEMF).
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Vaughan, Ontario-based bb Blanc, a leading name in the audiovisual production industry, has expanded its equipment portfolio with the acquisition of 48 Claypaky Sharpy X-Frame lighting fixtures. This strategic move underscores bb Blanc’s commitment to provide high-quality and innovative AV solutions for corporate events.
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Analog Way’s Aquilon C+ fully modular and scalable 4K/8K multi-screen presentation system and videowall processor drove a massive curved ROE CB5 LED video screen on the Main Stage, or Coachella Stage, at the eponymous musical festival this year. Tim Nauss, Managing Director of Denver-based Dapper Productions, was hired by Goldenvoice and NEP Sceenworks as Screens Producer for the Main Stage.
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