ORLANDO — TMB announced plans to showcase a variety of new products at InfoComm Booth 1143, starting off with UberPan from Green Hippo, which is a multi-server control system letting multiple Hippotizers work as one, creating a single virtual canvas.
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LEEK, The Netherlands — Prolyte has named Gert Felten, previously production manager, managing director of the Prolyte Products Group. Hans Kiewiet has been named commercial director. Prolyte founder Fokko Smeding remains a shareholder and will stay active within the company.
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NEW YORK — The James Beard Foundation chose “Women in Food” as the theme for its annual awards ceremony, and Unlimited Visibility Lighting Design (UVLD) was asked to bring “the look of a polished modern awards show” to the venue, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, according to UVLD lighting designer Gregory Cohen.
Read More »NEW YORK — I. Weiss provided a new stage rigging system with a motorized line shaft-operated fire curtain, 56 single purchase counterweight line sets and a new house curtain and valance for the Henry Miller Theater on Broadway.
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LONG BEACH, CA — The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is a three-day event billed as the “World’s Fastest Beach Party,” drawing 180,000 spectators and featuring live concerts and a Lifestyle Expo with over 270,000 square feet of merchandise displays, interactive games and racing-related exhibits.
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MIAMI — How do you say “Sweet 16 Party” in Spanish? La Quinceañera, but parents better plan for it about one year earlier than the Anglo equivalent of this coming-of-age celebration for a girl's 15th birthday.
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ORLANDO, FL —R&M Materials Handling, Inc. will be featuring the Stagemaker SM2 hoist at Infocomm booth #1653. The SM2 is designed for hotel ballrooms, churches, scenic arts, theatres, concert halls, clubs, exhibition halls and trade shows.
Read More »WESTLAKE, TX — ESTA said that its RDM Plugfest held in January was successful enough to be repeated in July. The informal event, dominated by technicians and engineers and not by buyers and sellers of gear, will take place in this Dallas-Fort Worth suburb and run for three days from July 17-19.
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NEW YORK—Billy Elliot, The Musical was the big winner at the 2009 Tony Awards, taking home 10 awards, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical (Lee Hall), Best Direction of a Musical (Stephen Daldry) Best Choreography in a Musical (Peter Darling), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Ian MacNeil), Best Lighting Design (Rick Fisher) and Best Sound Design (Paul Arditti).
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HARROW, U.K. — Artistic Licence is following last year’s RDM Splitter Upgrade with the introduction of the Rack-Split RDM RJ45. It’s a 1-to-9-universe DMX512 splitter with isolated input, supporting both RDM and High End Systems Talkback protocol, housed in a 1RU 19-inch rack mount casing.
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LAS VEGAS — Each year PLSN honors regional lighting production companies with our Hometown Heroes awards. These awards honor the best regional lighting production company in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest and Canada. The best part about this is that PLSN readers — the people who actually work with these companies — get to decide who’s really the best.
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PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh area residents no longer have to hop on a plane to get a taste of Las Vegas. Cannery Casino Resorts, a Las Vegas casino developer, and Chauvet have brought a bit of Vegas to North Strabane, Penn., located on Pittsburgh’s southern fringe.
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