Production and Lighting Designer Travis Shirley and industry legend/Tour Director Marty Hom looked for a project to work together on and found the ideal one with Stevie Nicks’ 2022 “Live in Concert” tour. The tour and design celebrate the iconic vocalist’s long successful career reflected in the production elements.
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This month celebrates the 53rd anniversary of The Woodstock Music & Art Fair. With festivals in their infancy at the time, on Aug. 15-18, 1969, Woodstock would make musical and cultural history. Festival production was also in its infancy at the time and Lighting Designer Chip Monck brings us back with his tales.
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The 2022 Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular concert was back on the Charles River in downtown Boston for the first time since 2019, after being cancelled due to Covid in 2020 and performing at Tanglewood in 2021. The event is one of the most recognized Independence Day celebrations in the country, including its presentation of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture”—with real cannons—and spectacular fireworks display over the river.Read More »Music and Fireworks: Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular Concert
Craig Rutherford looks at approaching video as a lighting designer. He talks about how to think about—and design—with video elements when one comes from a mostly lighting background. The topics range from content considerations to encouraging designers to break out of the rectangles.
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Columbus, OH-based production company L!VE may have started in a beat-up van, but they have since grown into regional and national event specialists. To date they have produced over 50,000 shows, served 11,000 brands, and covered 1.2 million miles. Today they employ about 110 people spread out across the Midwest.
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This month’s NextGen nominee is Lighting Director/Programmer Vanessa Arciga, who already has an impressive list of credits, working with a number of industry leading designers and companies. She most recently was out on Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour Tour with Paul “Arlo” Guthrie’s design.
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Celebrating the spirit, joie de vivre, color and vibrancy of live music, the arts, and the essence of in-person community – back enthusiastically after the pandemic – technical production specialist CPL coordinated and delivered staging, sound, video, lighting and other associated infrastructure to Tropic Fest, a two-day festival style event staged in the beautiful grounds of the historic Chillington Hall in Staffordshire, UK.Read More »CPL Helps the Chill Factor for Tropic Fest Event
Michael S. Eddy speaks with concert touring veteran Lance “KC” Jackson, who recently celebrated 44 consecutive years in the live entertainment industry, wearing many hats and mentoring others. Currently on the road as Production Stage Manager for Earth, Wind & Fire with Santana, Jackson is co-founder of Roadies of Color United.
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This month’s PLSN Buyer’s Guide rounds up Dimming and Power Distribution products. Though dimmers have lost their dominance to power distribution products, both are still widely used, and we look at the options available.
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The design team for Seattle Repertory Theatre’s world-premiere of the musical “Bruce” had to take an audience from Hollywood studio offices to Martha’s Vineyard’s oceanfront in this look at the making of the movie “Jaws.” Scenic Designer, Jason Sherwood and Lighting Designer, Jeff Croiter tell us how they evoked these vastly different locales, including an ocean, on stage.
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Lighting and set designer Mikki Kunttu returns to Cirque du Soleil with “FUZION,” a specially commissioned brand-new production that was staged for the 2022 Jeddah Season Festival.
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Debi Moen lets us know who is up to what in our industry this month with updates on LD David “Gig” Butzler (Garth Brooks); Production Designer Andy Ruiz (Grupo Firme); LDs Roland Greil and Patrick Woodroffe, and Production Designer Florian Wieder (Rammstein), Joel Wojcik (Train); Justin Collie (Nimblist) and Production Designer Es Devlin and LD Jason Baeri (The Weeknd).
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