Production & Lighting Designer Nate Cromwell and Set Designer Melody Tseng have created a wonderfully natural setting for Alanis Morissette’s recent “Triple Moon” tour using tracking, automation, and projecting onto soft goods for the tour. Plus, a Vendor View from TAIT on the early collaboration process with the creative team.
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Styx and Foreigner are co-headlining the “Renegades & Juke Box Heroes” tour with Tim Rozner as the Tour Production Director. Libby Gray is the Lighting Designer for Styx, with Ben Moffitt handling the lighting design for Foreigner. Mike Wharton speaks with the team about designing a co-headlining run with two distinct looks.
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Production Designer Dan Hadley is back supporting The Foo Fighters for their just wrapped “Everything Or Nothing at All Tour.” He shares his thoughts on this tour’s design choices and some of the technology behind it. Hadley, who programs and operates his own show, did bring in some programming help this year.
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Production & Lighting Designer Brent Clark has two shows currently on tour, the Robert Plant / Alison Krauss “Raise the Roof Tour,” for which he’s also touring as Lighting Director; and Sarah McLachlan’s “The Fumbling Towards Ecstasy 30th Anniversary Tour.” Clark took some time to speak with PLSN about his designs for both these tours.
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Production Designer Rob Sinclair wanted to convey the world below New York City for Vampire Weekend’s “Only God Was Above Us” tour. With a clever and minimalist approach, beautiful use of monochrome, plus a large inflatable tunnel, he succeeded. Kevin M. Mitchell takes us into this underworld design.
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“Stadium of Fire,” the annual 4th of July celebration in Provo, Utah was headlined this year by the Jonas Brothers. Lighting for this epic event was supplied by Production Services International (PSI), which utilized a rig comprised predominantly IP65-rated luminaires. Austin Hart, Production Coordinator at PSI walks readers through the setup.
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At Coachella 2024, the music artist Grimes collaborated with Vello Virkhaus and XiteLabs on creating stunning live XR and AR visuals for both the live audience and the livestream. We also look at South African DJ Black Coffee at Red Rocks; and Germany’s Nature One EDM festival.
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Sphere Entertainment Co.’s “V-U2 An Immersive Concert Film” at Sphere Las Vegas. This one-of-a-kind cinematic experience, co-directed by Morleigh Steinberg and The Edge, opened Sept. 5, 2024.
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Four-time Tony Award nominee Lighting Designer Ben Stanton has had a busy 2024 on Broadway so far and he hasn’t even gotten to the fall season. The already opened “Days of Wine and Roses,” “The Notebook,” and “Mary Jane” showed the range of Stanton’s design approach.
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Rachael Bronstein helps readers build a plan for their future and to be your best self. Don’t wait until the tour ends to think about what’s next, take positive action now.
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Debi Moen chats with Steve Garner on his new gig; and the designers for Dirty Heads and Slightly Stoopid, Sebastian Maniscalco, Slash, Judas Priest, String Cheese Incident, Halestorm, and Indigo Girls.
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