The Johannesburg, South Africa based rental and production company MGG has made a sizable investment in new Robe moving lights, taking delivery of the 76 x fixtures from Robe’s Southern Africa distributor, DWR Distribution, including the first iFORTE and iFORTE LTXs and the first SVB1 luminaires on the continent of Africa.
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When the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) in London performed three musicals at London’s Southwark Playhouse Theatre–Into the Woods, Catastrophe Bay, and Our House–with three different lighting designers all shared a few things in common, the joy of working with young people on and off the stage – and a lighting rig consisting of various Cameo lights.
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Mandai Wildlife Group’s Night Safari has unveiled its latest attraction, the Pangolin Trail, comprised of several enclosures that showcase the natural habitats of nocturnal animals, the Pangolin Trail experience is enhanced by Martin architectural lighting fixtures, designed and deployed by lighting consultants, Light Collab.
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Dear Evan Hansen, the award-winning musical about a high school senior with social anxiety, received its Swedish premiere in Stockholm in January and is currently running at the Intiman Theatre. The show has been beautifully and creatively lit by renowned Swedish lighting designer, Palle Palmé, using only Ayrton Rivale Profiles, exclusively distributed in Sweden by Topstage.
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New Jersey-based Squeek Lights has expanded its inventory by adding Elation’s new PARAGON LED profile moving head, becoming one of the first rental companies in the U.S. to stock the award-winning fixture. With the acquisition, Squeek Lights currently has the largest inventory of PARAGON lights in the U.S.
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For Edinburgh’s popular FLY Festival at Princes Gardens not long ago, Nick Jevons drew up plans to light the two-day festival’s 40-meter long main stage opting to go with a single lighting fixture model: The CHAUVET Professional COLORado PXL Bar 16 supplied by Liteup.
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On this St. Patrick’s Day we give you a flashback to U2:UV Achtung Baby, Live at Sphere. Working with longtime collaborators Willie Williams, Stefaan “Smasher” Desmedt, and STUFISH Entertainment Architects, among others, the show’s production was realized by the longtime U2 veterans as well as new creatives and vendors. The production won two Parnelli Awards: Video Director of the Year and Media Content Creator of the Year.
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The entertainment world is gathering in Rimini, Italy, from March 23 to 25 for the newest edition of Multimedia Integration Expo (MIR), dedicated to technological… Read More »Claypaky Showcases Latest Innovations at MIR, March 23-25
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Claypaky fixtures scored big at the World Table Tennis Grand Smash Singapore 2025 where a large complement of Sharpy X Frames and Sharpy Washes were deployed on the field of play for competition lighting and for audience-pleasing sports presentations that kept fans’ energy high.
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When it came to lighting a recent one-off show for Everything Always Forever (the collaboration between John Summit and Dom Dolla), at the 20,000-capacity Gorge Amphitheatre, an outside concert venue in Washington state, Designer Marcus Jessup needed to look little further than the GLP portfolio for his creative solutions.
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Lightborne has announced the transfer of 100 percent of its ownership to senior executives Angie Fischer and Ryan McAllister effective March 1, 2025. Fischer and McAllister acquired the video content studio from CEO Tom Schiff and President Scott Durban. Fischer and McAllister will assume the roles of chief executive officer and chief creative officer, respectively.
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Tony Kushner’s epic Angels in America continues its sell-out performances at Finland’s National Theatre, with a projection-heavy design driven by a Green Hippo Hippotizer Boreal+ MK2 Media Server. Throughout the four-hour-long production video works in cohesion with the lighting to create sometimes hallucinogenic 1980s New York-inspired cityscapes that play with time and space. Hippotizer SHAPE was the core of the whole show.
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