Skip to content

Behind the Scenes UK’s Charity Golf Day Raises $8,818

Colbie Caillat Tours with Elation Cuepix Light Cubes. Tour photo by Steve Jennings

Colbie Caillat Tours with Elation Cuepix Light Cubes

LOS ANGELES — Grammy Award-winning singer Colbie Caillat toured the U.S. through the summer beneath a new lighting design from LD Kenneth Gribbon of Pulse Lighting that included Elation Cuepix Panel LED matrix blinders. Denver-based Steelfab LLC worked the LED fixtures into custom-fabricated scenic light cubes for the tour.

Read More »
Miss America Pageant Lit with Clay Paky Sharpy Washes, grandMA2 Consoles

Miss America Pageant Lit with Clay Paky Sharpy Washes, grandMA2 Consoles

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — Atomic Lighting (Lititz, PA) provided gear to light the 53 contestants in the Miss America beauty pageant, which returned to Boardwalk Hall here Sept. 14 and was telecast on ABC. LD Allen Branton specified a rig that included two dozen Clay Paky Sharpy Wash fixtures controlled by grandMA consoles for the 88th pageant. Felix Peralta and Kevin Lawson served as lighting directors and Laura Frank as the screens producer and media programmer for the event. A.C.T Lighting distributes Clay Paky and MA Lighting’s grandMA products in North America.

Read More »
Barbizon Installs Altman LED Worklights for DC’s Arena Stage

Barbizon Installs Altman LED Worklights for DC’s Arena Stage

WASHINGTON, DC — Altman Lighting and Barbizon relayed this account from Christopher Lewton, master electrician for the Arena Stage at The Mead Center for American Theater here, and Barbizon’s Jeremiah Brophy on how they and others upgraded the venue with Altman Lighting’s 130W LED work lights. The venue is pictured here; the fixture is pictured below.

Read More »
Stephen Harvey

Clearwing Productions Promotes Stephen Harvey

MILWAUKEE, WI — Clearwing Productions promoted Stephen Harvey, account executive at the company’s Milwaukee location 2013, to key accounts executive. Harvey will work to secure, grow and manage key regional, national and international accounts. Prior to joining Clearwing, Harvey toured for 10 years with One Night of Queen, a Queen tribute band.

Read More »
The Phantom of the Opera Opens in Estonia; Lighting Rig Includes Robe Gear. Photos by Louise Stickland

The Phantom of the Opera Opens in Estonia; Lighting Rig Includes Robe Gear

TARTU, Estonia — The Vanemuine Theatre here recently debuted its version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Phantom of The Opera. Pallé Palme specified more than 100 Robe moving lights in the rig, including 50 LEDWash 1200s, 20 LEDWash 600s and 24 MMX Spots and eight ROBIN 600E Spots, all from Robe’s Robin series. The rig also includes four Robe DigitalSpot 7000 DTs, which are used for projecting mapped video onto the various scenic pieces.

Read More »