‘Sugar Hill’ is a reimagining of Tchaikovsky’s classic Nutcracker, composed by jazz icons Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Seen for the first time as a fully realized ballet at the Chicago Auditorium the dance story reimagining of the classic tale was lit by Lighting Designer Christopher Annas-Lee.
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Lighting Designer Aldo Visentin of ArtmachinA, the longtime designer of the incomparable Italian Tenor Andrea Bocelli, speaks about his design approach for Bocelli’s singular performances, supported by OSA International.
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This month PLSN looks at some of the products and companies offering innovative automation products and solutions to the concerts, TV/film, events, corporate or theatrical production markets. All of them are keeping the production technology industry moving forward…or sideways, or up or…wherever you want.
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Rich Barrett/Quinn, the Head Lighting Designer and Programmer for Deep South Productions, has over 35 years’ experience, and though diagnosed with ALS, he continues to share his passion for the industry.
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Rachael Bronstein asks “why do we perpetually find ourselves caught in this cycle of procrastination and last-minute frenzy at tax time?” Our own money stories—the narrative we’ve internalized about money—may hold the answer.
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Debi Moen looks at how some in the industry worked on events around the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse, though none could compete with Mother Nature’s blackout cue.
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Chris Lose shares some universal truths about cloning fixtures he has found from his past experiences of cloning gone wrong and cloning gone right.
Read More »Cloning is used to add fixtures to the rig which are supposed to behave the same as an existing fixture or fixtures. This becomes useful when rigs grow or change over time… Dirty show files are full of clutter and mismanaged data. If two fixtures get cloned to 12 fixtures, then a single hard value will be multiplied by six. If you are preparing to clone your show, please take time to open a tracking sheet and repair any raw values before the clone. This will save you time in the long run.
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The 2024 edition of the Event Production Directory is now online. There are thousands of companies supporting live entertainment that are categorized by company specialty including lighting, sound, staging, video/projection, pyro, lasers, trucking, buses/coaches – and more than a dozen other show production categories.
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Every Ayrton aficionado knows its lighting fixtures are named after winds and high-performance cars. Rockhal Club in Luxembourg is amongst the latest to have taken stock of Ayrton Mistral S and Levante S fixtures which were supplied to the venue through Ayrton’s Belgian distributor, FACE.Read More »Ayrton ‘Winds’ Rock Luxembourg’s Rockhal Club
An arts organization and four individuals have been selected to receive monetary grants from the Stage Managers’ Association Foundation (SMAF) in the Foundation’s Spring 2024 grant cycle. A grant has been awarded to the Mosesian Center for the Arts (Watertown, MA), which sought funding to sustain and grow the Stage Manager Training program at Watertown Children’s Theatre. This grant will enable them to give more stipends.Read More »Stage Managers’ Association Foundation Announces Spring Grants
The PLSN April issue cover story looks at the design and production work on Billy Strings tour, featuring Lighting Designer Roger Gant, principal of RogerThat LLC; the production design, video content, and set extensions from the team at Lüz Studio. They worked with Production Manager Charlie Bryson, and VJ Tyler “TAJ” Givens, all of whose efforts combined to add depth and scale to the visual impact of the tour. Here is a glimpse of the tour.
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