SAN DIEGO – On May 30, Ziggy Marley performed a stadium show before some 7,000 socially distanced fans in 42,000-capacity Petco Park. Darvik Productions provided Joël Huxtable, Ziggy Marley’s programmer and operator, with a rig that included 57 Rogue fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
Read More »
CHICAGO – Visitors to Elation’s ON TOUR road show will be the first in the U.S. to check out in person the company’s new full-color LED PAR light, the KL PAR FC. The tour began June 14 and road show events have been announced through June 25.
Read More »
SUNRISE, FL – Responsible for the overall production design, Darmah has once again designed a successful Latin American Music Awards (Latin AMA) show. The impressive set design for the sixth edition of the ceremony, which was staged April 15 at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, FL, relied heavily on ROE Visual products which were used to present viewers with more than 30 million pixels of LED video content.
Read More »
CHERRY HILL, NJ – Hewshott International, a leading global independent consultancy specializing in AV, IT, Theatre and Acoustics has launched a full-service office in New… Read More »Hewshott appoints Brandon Creel to lead the new office in America
Read More »
PRAGUE – On May 4th, Czech auto manufacturer Škoda presented its new Fabia to the world, the fourth generation of the popular car model. As… Read More »Chris Moylan stages world premiere of new Škoda Fabia with Elation Proteus™
Read More »
BELGIUM – Kristof Van Mensel from Belgium-based lighting and visual design company TCF (The Creative Factory) likes Astera products! He uses them extensively –… Read More »Getting The Creative Factor
Read More »
BERLIN – Dark Matter, a permanent exhibition space for visual and sonic artistry in Berlin’s Lichtenberg district, is currently featuring seven unique sculptural and kinetic visual works by light artist Christopher Bauder of WHITEvoid. The exhibition, which opened earlier in June, makes use of Robe-supplied Tetra2 and MegaPointe fixtures.
Read More »
Counting Together, a growing coalition of theater artists, arts professionals, and organizations engaged in separate, long-term studies of race, gender, and disability in our field, announces the launch of a new online resource (CountingTogether.org) designed to provide free and easy access to industrywide data and statistics in these areas. By telling the stories of its findings, Counting Together’s stated goal is to identify and forge pathways to greater equity and inclusion. Currently made up of fifteen separate projects, Counting Together includes both individuals and groups engaged in countering systems of exclusion in the theater.Read More »Counting Together Provides Critical Data on Equity in American Theater
The USITT and ESTA Terminology Working Group is gathering suggestions about problematic racist, sexist, genderist, and other exclusionary language in our industry as well as suggestions to replace those terms. The group’s endeavor is to identify any terminology that is linguistically rooted in, or suggestive of oppression or exclusion, and supplant it with more inclusive and accurate language.Read More »Terminology Working Group Looking for Suggestions
The American Theatre Wing produces The Network, which provides emerging and developing theatre professionals advanced education, networking opportunities, and tools for career advancement within a supportive creative community.
Coming up next on The Network is a Free panel discussion with Stage Managers, Stage Management | Charting Your Course. Learn from the masters of logistics, communication, time management, and problem-solving during this panel discussion. The panelists of Stage Managers, who will share career advice and more, includes Cody Renard Richard, Cherie B. Tay, Rachel Sterner, and Kamra A. Jacobs. This discussion will be moderated by David Mendizábal. This will be held on Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. EDT.Read More »ATW’s The Network | Stage Management, Charting Your Course Panel Discussion, June 16
Michael Ritchie has announced that he will retire as Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group on December 31, 2021. Having taken over the position from Founding Artistic Director Gordon Davidson in January 2005, for more than 16 years, Ritchie has led one of the country’s largest nonprofit regional theatres, producing and presenting 266 productions—which included 49 world premieres, four Pulitzer Prize finalists and led to 59 Tony Award nominations—while programming the Ahmanson Theatre and Mark Taper Forum in downtown Los Angeles at The Music Center and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.Read More »Michael Ritchie to Retire as Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group on December 31, 2021
When we first heard that Toby Keith was fixing to open the floodgates to live concerts, we were all in. After a warm-up date out… Read More »The Floodgates Creak Open
Read More »