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The Stage Managers’ Association Announces 2024 Del Hughes Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management

The Stage Managers’ Association Announces 2024 Del Hughes Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management

On Monday October 28th, 2024, the Stage Managers’ Association (SMA) will present its annual Del Hughes Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management at the National Opera Center’s Marc A. Scorca Hall in NYC. The distinguished 2024 honorees are theatrical Production Stage Managers Lloyd Davis, Jr., Ed De Shae, and Denise Yaney.

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Brompton-Powered Racquet Studios Relocates to Further Strengthen Ties with Key Education Partners

Launched in June 2023, Eastbourne, Sussex-based Racquet Studios recognized the potential of virtual production. A year in the making, and after rigorous testing and trialing, a state-of-the art facilities for virtual film production, education, and specialist research and development was created, which relies on Brompton Technology LED processing to power their LED setup.

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Claypaky Xtylos Shine on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘The Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour’

Jonny “Tosser” Tosserello, Lighting Designer/Director for Lynyrd Skynyrd, is continuing his long-time use of Claypaky Xtylos for ‘The Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour’ with ZZ Top co-headlining. Lynyrd Skynyrd, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, kicked off the North American leg, with ZZ Top, in July with lighting support from Premier Global Production.

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Fanta Fest Fires Up Fans with Hippotizer

Türkiye’s Gen Z-oriented Fanta Fest returned for 2024 to visit seven of the country’s biggest cities, with five large LED screens displaying more than 43 million pixels of performer-specific content, all driven by a Hippotizer Boreal+ MK2 Media Server. Video Designer and Programmer Gürkan Çalışkan worked with Fanta Fest’s Technical Director Can Besbelli to deliver strikingly different visual content.

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ETC Offers More Ways to Move 4WRD

ETC announces the addition of the RJ45 to XLR Adapter for all Source 4WRD fixtures. As more users convert their incandescent Source Four luminaires to LEDs with ETCs Source 4WRD family of options. Source 4WRD not only increases the life of the millions of iconic Source Four fixtures around the world, but ensures lower power consumption across venues.

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Carlos Katsurayama and CHAUVET Professional Rock on The Struts ‘Pretty Vicious’ Tour

The Struts’ just-concluded U.S. leg of their ‘Pretty Vicious’ tour featured a design by Lighting Designer Carlos Katsurayama, who transformed the stage with a shifting variety of dramatic looks that wrapped themselves tightly around the mood of the music. Helping him create this evocative canvas was a rig supplied by LIT Lighting that featured CHAUVET Professional fixtures.

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ADJ Hydro Hybrid Now Available

ADJ Lighting announces the immediate availability of the powerful and versatile new Hydro Hybrid automated luminaire. The latest addition to ADJ’s popular Hydro Series, this IP65-rated moving head can serve interchangeably as a beam, spot or wash. Packed with output-shaping tools – including CMY color mixing, an animation wheel, and dual-plane prisms – it delivers huge creative potential to lighting designers and offers exceptional ROI for rental/production companies.

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