KINGSTON, ON — On the shores of Lake Ontario, Queen’s University’s Isabel Bader Centre for the Arts—the newest addition to Canada’s cultural landscape, recently opened its doors. The elaborate facility is the culmination of more than seven years of planning, design, and construction, and Theatre Projects played a key role.
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LAS VEGAS — When LD, educator and USITT regional chair Don Childs founded the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas in 2006 with wife and partner Jane Childs, the primary motivation wasn’t a quick financial jackpot. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, the organization endured years of red ink after its launch. But the intensive, eight-week summer program, which continues to operate under Jane Childs’ leadership after Don Childs’ death in late 2011, is rich in other respects, drawing support from well-known faculty members and top production companies and manufacturers.
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LONDON — Avolites Media’s Arran Rothwell-Eyre and Robbie Barr used Avolites Media’s Ai Infinity EX8 server to keep an energized Brixton Academy crowd pumped up for a show featuring rapper Childish Gambino, a.k.a. Donald Glover. The visuals appeared on a 3,000-by-1,000 pixel backdrop at the venue. XL Video provided gear for the U.K. show; LMG is supporting the rapper’s U.S. fall tour.
Read More »PETERBOROUGH, U.K. – Le Maitre noted recently that its increased investment in pyro factory here is yielding an increase in the quantity and quality of its pyro products, with less fallout material, more consistent colors, and reformulated magnesium compositions to keep environmental impact to a minimum.
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HILDESHEIM, Germany – The annual M’era Luna Festival, staged Aug. 9 at a former British Army airbase here, featured its usual mix of goth, metal and industrial music with headliners including Marilyn Manson, Paradise Lost and In Extremo. But this year’s lineup also included Covenant, an electronic dance band from Sweden, into the lineup. LD Stephan Aue and lighting operator Rico Münzer used LED gear from SGM to light the group’s synth-pop stylings.
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LOS ANGELES — The 14th BET Awards, broadcast live from Nokia Theatre June 29, capped off a weekend of live performances running from June 27-29 at the Staples Center and Club Nokia collectively called the BET Experience at L.A. Live. At Staples Center, performers included Maxwell and Jill Scott (June 27), OutKast and Rick Ross (June 28) and Mary J. Blige, Trey Songz and Jennifer Hudson (June 28). Visions Lighting provided visual support that included 64 Nexus 4×4 LED panels from Chauvet Professional.
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Creative Conners, based in Warren, RI, responded to the need from production company Stage House to have more surface contact between Creative Conners’ Revolver stage turntable mechanism and a drive ring mounted to the underside of the turntable. As a result, the company has modified their Revolver to provide better engagement between the 8” friction wheel of the machine and the drive ring of any existing turntable. The new design also gives operators easier access for maintenance on the friction wheel.
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