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Justin Townsend to Lead NYU’s Department of Design for Stage & Film

Justin Townsend to Lead NYU’s Department of Design for Stage & Film

NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Dean Allyson Green announced that Justin Townsend will be leading the Department of Design for Stage and Film as Chair starting in August 2022 and will join the faculty immediately. Townsend is a Tony Award-winning educator and international designer who has designed more than 250 shows throughout his 25-year career. Townsend will continue the legacy of renowned costume designer Susan Hilferty, who has guided the program for more than 20 years to the outstanding reputation that it holds today. Hilferty will remain on the faculty.Read More »Justin Townsend to Lead NYU’s Department of Design for Stage & Film

The Shubert Organization Acquires the GalaPro App

The Shubert Organization announces that it has acquired the GalaPro App, the software that allows for real-time translations and captioning in theaters. After incubating GalaPro in 2016, The Shubert Organization implemented an organization wide rollout of the software in all of its theaters. Shubert’s first investment in GalaPro was in 2018, before acquiring the GalaPro App in November 2021.Read More »The Shubert Organization Acquires the GalaPro App

Heavenue Launches Cloud-Enabled Platform to Deliver Immersive Live Shows

 

Heavenue, an entertainment-focused platform delivering high-fidelity, immersive live shows from the cloud, has opened in New York. Founded by Alex Coulombe, CEO, the early development platform has already been used by the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky in its R&D Lab, exploring old and new media, a virtualized rendition of Dickens’s classic, A Christmas Carol in a hybrid live stage and virtual theater performance. Here’s a video trailer of the production that aired in December 2021:

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Metropolitan interactive & Mitsubishi Electric DiamondVision Partner on Boston’s WynnBET Sports Bar

Metropolitan interactive doing business as Metinteractive, which provides strategic solutions for architecture, communication, and technology, partnered with Mitsubishi Electric DiamondVision to deliver the massive LED video canvas showcased in the WynnBET Sports Bar at the new Encore Boston Harbor hotel and casino.Read More »Metropolitan interactive & Mitsubishi Electric DiamondVision Partner on Boston’s WynnBET Sports Bar

ELS and Elation Light Inaugural Holiday Wonders at Bowie Nature Park in Tennessee

Extreme Lighting & Sound (ELS) recently wrapped up its first season presenting Holiday Wonders at Bowie Nature Park in Fairview, Tennessee. The dazzling drive-thru holiday light show featured atmosphere-generating effects from a large amount of Elation lighting gear along with custom pixel products and proved a huge success.Read More »ELS and Elation Light Inaugural Holiday Wonders at Bowie Nature Park in Tennessee

Epson Launches New Generation of Pro Series High Lumen Projectors

The new Epson EB-PU2220B 20,000 lumen projector

Epson today introduced six new Pro Series interchangeable lens projectors ranging from 13,000 to 20,000 lumens of equal color and white brightness. The new generation of compact, ultra-lightweight 3LCD projectors include the world’s lightest and smallest 20,000-lumen projectors – EB-PU2220B and EB-PU2120W – which are 64 percent smaller and 50 percent lighter than their predecessors.Read More »Epson Launches New Generation of Pro Series High Lumen Projectors

PAS Celebrates Bradford in Light with Chauvet Professional

At the height of the industrial revolution, Bradford’s dominant position within the northern textile industry earned itself the nickname “Woolopolis.” Some two centuries later, a group of enterprising locals have undertaken an initiative to celebrate the city’s past and look forward to its future with Bradford is #LiT.Read More »PAS Celebrates Bradford in Light with Chauvet Professional

Hickman Shearer Partners with CA Global Partners to Sell Assets on Behalf of the Administrators of Arena Television Limited

UK – CA Global Partners—a global leader in asset management and capital recovery and Hickman Shearer—a leading capital asset valuation, management and used equipment sales… Read More »Hickman Shearer Partners with CA Global Partners to Sell Assets on Behalf of the Administrators of Arena Television Limited

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Streaming Video Production for Pentatonix’s The Evergreen Experience Relies on Blackmagic Design Cameras

Pentatonix’s The Evergreen Experience concert was shot with Blackmagic Design’s URSA Broadcast G2 and URSA Mini Pro 12K cameras in Blackmagic RAW by video production company MixOne Cinema. During the performance, which was streamed across four time zones on premium social live media platform Moment House, Grammy Award winning a cappella group Pentatonix performed songs from its latest album Evergreen. Among the many advantages Moment House brings to both creators and fans is the focus on providing cinematic experiences with high quality, Hollywood level imagery from multicamera productions. MixOne Cinema, which specializes in high profile entertainment events, was chosen to produce the performance and used Blackmagic Design products to achieve a high-quality look.Read More »Streaming Video Production for Pentatonix’s The Evergreen Experience Relies on Blackmagic Design Cameras