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Stagehand Launches #ILoveLive3

Stagehand Launches #ILoveLive3

In its 25th year, Stagehand, a UK-based live event production workers charity, announced the launch of the Christmas fundraiser, #ILoveLive3. This year’s campaign recognizes the immense challenges faced by the live event production industry and aims to provide crucial support to UK-based touring and festival crews dealing with serious physical or mental ill health. #ILoveLive3 launched on Friday Dec. 1, 2023, with tickets available and on sale at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/i-love-live.Read More »Stagehand Launches #ILoveLive3

Martin Professional Introduces Exterior Wash Pro Family

HARMAN Professional Solutions recently announced the launch of the Exterior Wash Pro Family, engineered to meet demanding and harsh environments while offering creative possibilities with intelligent features to elevate a wide range of lighting designs. These fixtures build on the company’s Exterior Linear Pro family and represent a new era in color performance for architectural lighting.Read More »Martin Professional Introduces Exterior Wash Pro Family

Online Exclusive: Seinfeld/Gaffigan Co-Headlining Tour Ends with “Experiment” in St. Louis

Photo by Justin Shubert with Studio Moderne

Top-Level comedians have been increasingly getting out of those 3,000-5,000 seat theaters and trying their jokes out in arenas and stadiums. Two of the biggest – Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan – thought they would pair up in a co-headliner mini-tour of just four cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and St. Louis. For the last show in St. Louis, they experimented with leaving the full theater curtain package set on the truck and seeing if they could pull it off selling seats on the extreme sides and behind them to increase ticket sales further. Halifax-based Tour Tech East made it work.Read More »Online Exclusive: Seinfeld/Gaffigan Co-Headlining Tour Ends with “Experiment” in St. Louis

Bill Groener Joins Altman Lighting as Chief Operating Officer

Bill Groener

Altman Lighting Inc. announces that Bill Groener has joined the company as its new Chief Operating Officer. Groener’s distinguished career spans more than 40 years in the entertainment, themed, and architectural technology sectors. Before joining Altman, Groener was the COO of The Lighting Design Group, President of Vincent Lighting Systems and the VP of National Business Development for 4Wall Entertainment. Furthermore, Groener held key positions with Color Kinetics, Barbizon, Elliptipar, and Strand Lighting. He was also the principal and sole owner of BGr + A, a sales agency covering the Metro New York area that was dedicated to meeting the diverse lighting needs of the theatre, television, film, and architectural markets. Read More »Bill Groener Joins Altman Lighting as Chief Operating Officer

Seriously Magical New Tech for Robe at LDI

Robe launches four new products on Booth 911A at the LDI 2023 expo in Las Vegas next week – the iT12 Profile™, the T32 Cyc™, and two new variants of the cool and successful PATT series of scenic illumination, the HolyPATT™ and the MolyPATT™. Additionally, shown for the first time at an expo in North America will be Robe’s new iSeries of IP rated and robustly weatherized moving lights – the incredible iFORTE LTX® currently the most powerful LED moving head on the market – together with iESPRITE®, iPAINTE®, iTetra2™ and iBeam350™ luminaires, all of which are expected to attract huge interest in North America.Read More »Seriously Magical New Tech for Robe at LDI

AV Stumpfl Opens PIXERA Office in Los Angeles

PIXERA’s Conor McGill has been promoted to Director, PIXERA USA and is opening a new office in Santa Monica, CA

Following the opening of the new PIXERA UK office in London last month, AV Stumpfl announced that PIXERA, its real-time media server platform, is expanding its physical presence in North America as well. The company recently opened a new office in Los Angeles, dedicated exclusively to its PIXERA media server platform, and Conor McGill has been promoted to Director, PIXERA USARead More »AV Stumpfl Opens PIXERA Office in Los Angeles