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SEATTLE – The wonderful world of entertainment technology is renowned for those who can think out-of-the-box … and this pandemic is seeing no end of… Read More »Covert Bat Drive Thru Rave

LAS VEGAS – The 20th annual BET Awards, held June 28 as a virtual event, required performing artists to deliver live vocal performances over pre-recorded visuals. For the Summer Walker and Usher performance, recorded at LMG Touring’s Las Vegas facility, LMG Touring hosting the entire shoot and providing a projection mapping package for both sets less than 48 hours before the event.

  MORGANTOWN, WV – Christopher Robin is quite sure he’ll never forget the Fourth of July 2020. Challenging times that force us out of our… Read More »Star Design Event Services Lights Multi Site 4th of July Show with CHAUVET Professional

NASHVILLE, TN – As the live entertainment industry looks for new ways to engage people during the Covid-19 pandemic, Bandit Lites, Moo TV and Clair Global joined forces to offer a safe and controlled venue for performing artists at the Steel Mill, complete with a full production turnkey studio with lighting, video and sound for recordings and broadcasts.

ROME, GA – Each year, WinShape Camps attracts more than 30,000 students to its Christian-led summer camps across the U.S. This year, the Covid pandemic precluded in-person events. But the virtual experience ON is offering kids K-12 something new every week. Broadcasting live eight hours a day, five days a week from a gymnasium on the WinShape campus in Rome, GA, Stacked Hearts Productions is using Elation LED fixtures provided by Elite Multimedia Productions.

NEW YORK – The Behind the Scenes Mental Health Initiative has rolled out a number of suicide prevention tools as part of joining the #BeThe1To campaign run by the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and its partners. These tools are available at btshelp.org/bethe1to.

MIDDLETON, WI – To help Covid-idled lighting students and professionals hone their skills, ETC teamed with a Broadway lighting team on the Hamilton Programming Project. Participants can use actual touring paperwork from the hit musical to finish prep on an Eos show file and recreate Howell Binkley’s Tony Award-winning lighting looks, all in Eos Augment3d.

KINGS MOUNTAIN, NC – Daniel Thibault, owner of Life Is Art Studios, used Chauvet Professional Rogue fixtures in his lighting design for No Parking On The Dance Floor, a drive-in concert by dubstep artists Subtronic and Boogie T. Close to 2,000 fans (in 500 cars) attended the show at the Hounds Drive-In Theatre outside Charlotte, NC.

  NYC – This form is to collect demographic information on individuals who work in LORT theatres as designers, directors, and artistic directors from the… Read More »Who Designs & Directs in LORT Theatres Survey

LAS VEGAS — In early July, PLSN and FOH Magazines conducted a follow-up to the Covid-19 Entertainment Technology Economic Impact survey in April. Over the course of a week, 2,910 magazine subscribers and others responded (most on the first day). The results are bleak and show an industry on the edge, highlighting a desperate need for additional PPP funding.