ATLANTA – Tomcat participated in the 62nd Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), the third year the truss company has been involved. During the event, Tomcat showcased its products, co-sponsored a design/tech mixer and donated two dance towers as giveaways.
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MIDDLETON, WI – Electronic Theatre Controls, (ETC) has introduced three new fixtures to their lineup of entertainment lighting products. The Selador Desire LED luminaires, Source Four Fresnel, and outdoor Source Four XT.
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PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA – One of South Africa's biggest stage equipment distributors is supporting the lighting designers of the future by donating a Philips Strand Lighting 200 Plus lighting console to a local lighting school. DWR Distribution, which has been the exclusive South African distributor for Philips Entertainment brands Selecon and Strand Lighting since December 2010, made the generous gift to the Moonbox Theatre – a 40-seater venue and lighting laboratory at the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria.
Read More »BURBANK, CA – Chaos Visual Productions provided video support for 10 touring productions last summer. One of the largest, the John Mayer Battle Studies Tour, traveled with a 50-by-20-foot LED video wall comprised of 45 Martin LC 2140 panels, designed for indoor use. The tour performed 122 shows in 331 days in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. For a late July performance, Chaos set up the wall in an outdoor venue. Although the weather had been clear and sunny, it suddenly turned, and a monsoon-like squall swept through, completely destroying the video wall.
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ADB Lighting Technologies launched its Freedom and Liberty lighting control desks at Pro Light+Sound 2011. The Freedom, for theatre, opera, television and other applications, can support up to 2,048 channels and 32 universes, while Liberty supports up to 1,024 channels and 16 universes.
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LISBON, Portugal – Working once again with designer Mark Fisher's studio, Stufish, Brilliant Stages has supplied three inflatable puppets and a circular projection screen for Roger Waters The Wall Live tour. The company provided both the puppets and automation representing the Teacher, the Wife and the Mother for the tour. Each is over 9 meters tall, and equipped with inflatable skins from Air Artists.
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BURBANK, CA – Electrosonic acquired systems integrator Excel Media Systems Inc. The company will become part of Electrosonic's corporate solutions business, offering meeting room and video conferencing systems with full after-sales services from offices in New York City.
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SAN ANTONIO, TX – Rodney Smith, CFE, who had been executive director of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, died March 27 from an apparent heart attack. He was 58. Smith played a key role for the International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM), leading its Performing Arts Committee.
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LONDON – Three Phantoms brings popular West End and Broadway musicals such as Phantom of the Opera to U.K. musical theatre fans, and Complete Production Solutions (CPS) has included PR Lighting fixtures in the rig for the shows, which are being performed in venues seating between 1,000 and 2,000 people.
Read More »LAS VEGAS – Harkness Screens announced a $5 million expansion of its operations in Canada, China and France, nearly doubling the production capacity for the company's Spectral 3D and Perlux high gain screens. Canada is fully operational and the expansions in France and China are expected to be operational by mid 2011.
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LOS ANGLES, CA – Mojo Barriers is introducing the Gatekeepeer and BLMS stage barrier system. Gatekeeper is a small turnstile system with pioneering proprietary software, designed to improve crowd safety at events. The Gatekeeper works by monitoring the amount of people entering and leaving an event area through multiple exits, automatically controlling the capacity in real time.
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PETALUMA, CA — Panamax/Furman has appointed John Benz as the director of marketing for the company. Benz has served Panamax/Furman for more than six years… Read More »Panamax/Furman Appoints John Benz Director of Marketing
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