The first iHeartRadio ALTer EGO concert of 2022 took place at the Forum in Los Angeles on Jan. 15 with performances by Coldplay, All Time Low, Imagine Dragons, Måneskin and others. 4Wall provided a rig specified by Patrick Dierson of The Activity that included Maverick and COLORado fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
Here’s a video interview with LD Jeff Croiter on lighting Freestyle Love Supreme for its Broadway run as well as the U.S. tour with support from 4Wall:
With Super Bowl LVI taking place on Feb. 13, 2022 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA, there will be numerous events and parties including pre-show brand activations, after parties, promotional performances, and other activities surrounding the big game. PRG wants to remind everyone that they have a major location in LA and can provide production support for all your needs.
Expo 2020 a World Expo, hosted by Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, opened October 1, 2021, and runs to March 31, 2022. It continued a longtime tradition of showcasing the greatest innovations and technology advancements that have shaped the world we live in today. This year, the 182-day event consisted of 192 country pavilions, each one located in different districts. Expo 2020 is organized to connect people from different parts of the world, experience culture, art, technology, and innovation, and share ideas about world topics.Read More »Seamless Curved INFiLED LED Displays Impress at the EXPO 2020 Finland Pavilion in Dubai
Situated on the edge of London’s Kensington Gardens, the Royal Albert Hall—that internationally respected bastion of music—continues to mark its 150th anniversary through special events to the end of 2023. The truly iconic venue, which hosts over 390 shows a year including classical, rock and pop concerts, ballet, opera, awards ceremonies, charity performances, and banquets, many of which are televised, is now fully equipped with 4 MDG ATMe haze generators, supplied by TSL.Read More »MDG ATMe Haze Generators Transform the Experience in London’s Royal Albert Hall
Six months ago, Production Manager David ‘dstew’ Stewart and partner Sarah Lozoff formally created Production on Deck. It began as a resource to consolidate the… Read More »Equity in Hiring: Eliminating Excuses
Chris Lose, PLSN columnist and lighting/video designer, led one of the free educational sessions offered as a part of NAMM’s Believe In Music online event, which was livestreamed Jan. 20-21. Lose interviewed Production Manager Phay Mac Mahon for a session titled Take the Stress Out of Touring: The Artist and Crew Relationship.
PLSN is sorry to hear of the passing of singer and actor, Meat Loaf, who was born Marvin Lee Aday on September 27, 1947 in… Read More »In Memoriam: Meat Loaf, 74
LD Ruby Leigh with the ChamSys MagicQ 250M Stadium Console on tour with Sarah Brightman.
The Music Center at Strathmore is a modern glass-and-steel multidisciplinary arts space in North Bethesda, MD. Well-appointed with excellent acoustics, it is like many other performance venues in American suburbs. But last month, this fairly typical space became, in the words of one critic, “a heavenly place to be.”Read More »Sarah Brightman Soars with Help from Dedicated Design Team and ChamSys
Lectrosonics is pleased to announce that the DBSM single battery/DBSMD dual-battery bodypack transmitters have been nominated as a finalist for the 37th Annual NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity (TEC) Awards for Technical Achievement in the category of Wireless Technology. The NAMM TEC awards recognize innovative product design and excellence in audio and sound production, with outstanding technical achievement including 21 categories which span across the professional audio product spectrum.Read More »Lectrosonics DBSM/DBSMD Bodypack Transmitters Named as a Finalist for NAMM TEC Award