Bob Schacherl, former CEO of Robe North America since 2013, passed away after a long illness. He was 70. Robe released this statement on Schacherl’s… Read More »In Memoriam: Bob Schacherl, Former CEO Robe North America, 70
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Wenger Corporation, a leading provider of high-quality equipment and solutions for performing arts, announce the acquisition of Creative Conners, Inc., a trusted innovator in stage automation technology. This strategic acquisition expands Wenger’s capabilities in the performing arts sector.
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The team at Concept K broke the rules at the 2025 Dystopia festivals, held in France. They departed from the standard practice of having a massive video wall on a festival’s main stage. Instead, they animated their main stages with brawny collections of lighting effects, including the CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M units.
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As Billie Holiday observed, ‘every song, like every person, must be unique, or it isn’t music’. As a Lighting Designer, Jack Thomas agrees. Guided by this principle, he set out to leave visual fingerprints on each song in Bayside’s current North American ‘Errors Tour’.
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On its latest world tour, metal band Underoath wanted to remind its fans of where the group got its start, while celebrating the 20th anniversary of their album, ‘They’re Only Chasing Safety’. Lenny Sasso, Lighting Designer for the tour designed a set that begins as a dingy living room and gradually evolves into an expansive, modern show with intense lighting effects
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A large complement of Claypaky Sharpys and Tambora Batten squares illuminated the final qualifying event for Finland’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. Lighting Designer Pekka Martti and Ari Levela, Creative Director/Founder of MOBB Helsinki Oy, designed the stage for UMK 2025.
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All lighting designers love challenges and none more so than Crt Birsa from design studio Blackout, who fitted nearly 400 lighting fixtures into a 20 x 20 meter space in Studio 1 at the Slovenian National television station in Ljubljana. Read how Birsa relied on the support of Robe for this production.
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When LD Jared Sayeg started planning the design for ‘Topdog/Underdog’ for the Pasadena Playhouse, he knew he needed fixtures that “could truly accommodate both slow smooth fades and sharp shuttering as well as big strokes of light that engulf the playing space.” He turned to GLP impression X5 IP Bars for his solution.
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Lighting Designed Luis Torres of HiLite Designs relied on a range of CHAUVET Professional fixtures for his dynamic design on the Royal Ball Room Stage at the Decadence Festival, which took place in Avondale, AZ. He worked closely with the teams at Relentless Beats and Kelco, which handled production management duties.
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The 2025 edition of the Event Production Directory is now online. There are thousands of companies supporting live entertainment that are categorized by company specialty including lighting, sound, staging, video/projection, pyro, lasers, trucking, buses/coaches – and more than a dozen other show production categories.
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The sci-fi adventure ‘The Electric State’, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, premiered on Netflix in March, with state-of-the-art lighting technology from Elation playing a key behind-the-scenes role. Learn how Lighting Console Programmer Eric “TK” Androvich integrated Elation moving heads to help shape the film’s distinctive visual style.
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As the lighting designer for the multi-platinum Grammy winners Diamond Rio, Willis Underhill has run his dynamic lightshows in a variety of venues from arenas and music halls to festivals. Recently, he lit the band’s show at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo with a ChamSys console.
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