MIAMI-Lava Studio, best known for its work in advertising, television and feature films, has collaborated with director/designer team Renaud Doucet and André Barbe on Florida Grand Opera's production of The Barber of Seville to create animated sets for its Feb. 20-March 6 run in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
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MADISON, WI – How hard can it be to turn an off-season football stadium into an outdoor hockey arena? As SGASi Production Services will tell you, it's a little more complicated than just adding water.
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Lighting Co.
Theatrical Lighting Systems/Huntsville, Ala.
Venue
Church of the Highlands
Birmingham, Ala.
Lighting Co.
Theatrical Media Services, Inc.
Venue
Budweiser Events Center
Loveland, Colo.
Every January, Tour Tech East in Halifax, Nova Scotia hosts a mini trade show and maxi charity event and party benefiting AIDS research. If you've never been then you owe it to yourself to make a point of going. It's a great way to get some quality time with different people in the industry and to help support a worthy cause at the same time.
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When LD Lee Rose of Design Partners first lit Dick Clark's New Years Rockin' Eve, Ronald Reagan was in the White House and Johnny Carson was the host of The Tonight Show. For 2010, the NYRE show featured The Black Eyed Peas, pictured above, plus Colbie Caillat, Robin Thicke, Keri Hilson, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber – and, once again, Lee Rose as LD.
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Paramore's popularity in the U.K. has grown since the film Twilight featured "Decode" on the soundtrack. That left LD Chad Peters with a dual challenge: find fixtures bright enough for arena-sized venues, yet still meet the band's strong "green" preference.
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Blackpool's city council was looking to encourage people to linger in the downtown area and take advantage of the area's many restaurants, bars, cafes, clubs and performance venues. They commissioned £3.5 million for a public art projection, Brilliance, which consists of six aluminum-clad arches traversing Birley Street.
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With so many Broadway shows becoming glossier and more high tech, it can be difficult for smaller shows to compete with bigger production values. The solution? Bring in people who work on those larger shows, which is what The Happy Embalmer director Kelly Devine did when she mounted her catchy, off-the-wall musical at the New York Musical Theater Festival last fall.
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