BERKELEY, CA — American Idiot, the rock album by Green Day, is now a rock opera performed at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. LD Kevin Adams is using an ETC Eos lighting control system for the production.
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TMB is launching the first products in the ProMolded Assembly range. 19-pin (six-circuit) stage lighting cables, break-ins and break-outs are now available with TMB’s ruggedized ProCable and premium ProSeries connectors. In-house retrofit services for conventional non-molded 19-pin cables are also available.
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DURHAM, U.K. — HSL supplied over 100 Robe moving lights, including ColorWash 1200E ATs and ColorWash 2500E ATs, for a holiday TV special and DVD shoot staged by Sting in Durham Cathedral. The LD for the show was Manfred “Ollie” Olma.
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JOHANNESBURG — In2Structures (part of the Gearhouse South Africa Group) launched two new Dome structures at the GHSA head office in Bezuidenhout Valley.
Read More »FREDERICKSBURG, VA — Harkness Screens is celebrating its 80th year in business, growing from humble beginnings in 1929 to a company employing 100 people in five countries today.
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SYDNEY — For the 15th Annual Deadlys Awards at Sydney Opera House, Coastal Lighting’s rig included four of PR Lighting’s XL590 LED moving head washlights into the stage floor, as specified by LD, Aldo Fabrizio.
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WASHINGTON, DC — Wybron’s Mobile Showroom set out on its second leg of dates, which began Nov. 2, in the Washington, DC, Baltimore and New Jersey areas.
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LOS ANGELES — Shockwave Cargo named Doug Masterson managing partner. Masterson has over 18 years of project logistics experience including his role at Rock-It Cargo as former president and COO.
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WASHINGTON, DC — For the North American, UK, and Ireland dates of the Miley Cyrus Wonder World tour, lighting and video designer Seán Burke had Production Resource Group supply and support the lighting system. “Having a company that can supply on both sides of the Atlantic is very important but there are very few that can do it—and do it well,” said Burke.
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SYRACUSE, NY, October 29—J. R. Clancy, Inc., added Nathan Jones to the company’s mechanical engineering staff. In his new position, Jones will work with Clancy’s product development team on the design and specifications for new products.
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BROOKLYN, NY — LD Tom Kenny used an array of Coemar lighting fixtures supplied by Atomic Lighting to lend a theatrical look to the sixth annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors 2009, taped at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House.
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