Two years after launching Alchemy 5, the Italian company has decided to expand its range of Fresnel wash moving heads: Alchemy 7 is designed to extend the range and offer a more powerful option. Like its predecessors, Alchemy 7 features a 6-color chip LED source along with an impressive tungsten emulation function. New features include a 2-blade framing system with a 180-degree full system rotation and a more powerful lumen output that reaches up to 22,000 lumens.
The 15th edition of the Prague Quadrennial will take place June 8 to 18, 2023 and the main venue is the Pražská Tržnice. Here’s a video from PQ with the announcement of the theme, which took place on Tuesday, June 23, 2021. The theme for the 15th PQ is RARE: art springing out of ideas, materials, artistic approaches, and design practices that connect to the human level from within your environment, with its genius loci and unique situation. By this theme, the PQ responds to the changes in all areas of human life that the pandemic situation has accelerated and the physical experience has become rare. They call on performance designers, scenographers, and performance practitioners to use their RARE imagination and creativity to help them envision what the world and theatre could look like in the post-pandemic future.
Like anyone who enters Tuacahn Amphitheatre for the first time, Cory Pattak was awed by the surroundings when he arrived there in 2017 to light a production of Newsies. Located at the mouth of Padre Canyon in southwestern Utah, with its towering sandstone cliffs dotted with sage brush and yuca trees, the setting offers a quintessential image of the American West in all its rugged, untamed beauty.Read More »Cory Pattak and CHAUVET Professional Ovation Fixtures Light Tuacahn Amphitheatre
Littlite® has appointed Randy Robertson as Sales Manager for the Littlite brand of gooseneck task lights and accessories. Robertson spent 10 years in the Littlite… Read More »Littlite® Appoints New Sales Team Members
Musicians Can Protect Their Hearing by Embracing a “New Normal” for Return to Live Events Stage Monitoring
The first hearing test establishes a baseline that all future hearing exams are compared against to determine if any loss has occurred.
As theater and live music returns, Shure and Sensaphonics and Shure offer tips for musicians to “retrain the brain” after time away. As performers and audio engineers at theaters, concert halls, and live event venues worldwide start the ‘check one… check one-two…’ — they are finding some significant changes and opportunities in post-hiatus live music.Read More »Shure and Sensaphonics Promote Hearing Safety as Theater, Live Music, and Events Return
Coming this Friday, June 25, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. EDT from the Broadway Stage Management Symposium is another in their great, Free series, SM Tech Friday with exploration of organizational tool Roam. Join BSMS Founder, Matthew Stern and R.J. Nestor, business coach, musician, and writer as they take a deep dive into this organizational tool. Roam is a powerful organizational and note-taking program with numerous possibilities to transform the way we take notes & communicate as a team. You’ll learn more about Roam as Nestor demos the many ways Roam can help stage managers and everyone in our theater industry: designers, technicians, production managers, directors, etc…Read More »Broadway Stage Management Symposium’s Free SM Tech Friday Program | Roam
In PLSN’s June 2021 issue, Debi Moen chronicles Catherine Healy’s journey from record store employee to CEO of Shockwave Cargo. Healy indicates that good things… Read More »Lessons Learned from a Career in Music
ROTTERDAM – After a gap year forced by the Covid-19 pandemic, the 65th Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) was staged with semifinals (May 18, 20) and finals (May 22) at Rotterdam, Netherlands’ Ahoy arena. More than 183 million saw the visuals created with an arsenal of gear that included Robe lighting fixtures and disguise media servers.