The 60th edition of the Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM) saw a return to the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, TX – hosted by country legend Reba McEntire for the 18th time. Co-Lighting Designers Michael Berger and Travis Hagenbuch, who used an array of GLP fixtures in their design.
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Elation launches its new OPS Series (Outdoor Permanent Specification), a durable, long-lasting solution for permanent outdoor installations. The OPS series enhances some of Elation’s most popular IP65/66-rated lighting fixtures, providing a ruggedized version designed specifically for demanding environments.
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Japan’s entertainment giant, Toei, has officially unveiled its state-of-the-art VP studio in Tokyo, marking a major milestone for the country’s digital content industry. Designed and built in close collaboration with global visual solutions leader AOTO, the Toei VP Studio is now the largest LED-based virtual production facility in Japan—and the first to be fully operated by a Japanese film studio.
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As the curtain closes on the 2024–25 Broadway season, PRG is proud to reflect on another standout year supporting some of the most ambitious and acclaimed productions on stage. This season, 42 Tony-eligible shows opened. PRG played a role in 39 of them.
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The Wenger | J.R. Clancy Summit Theatron Hoist has been engineered as an economical solution for high school Theatres, university theatres, and churches. With safety as a top priority and quality as a standard, it offers optimal capacity, travel, speed, and load sensing to meet the demands of any performance space.
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The lighting design community is mourning the loss of Paul Marantz, co-founder of Fisher Marantz Stone. A lighting visionary who, through his extraordinary contributions to architectural lighting design, has helped to transform the perception of lighting design as a profession.
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An array of Claypaky lighting fixtures, including Volero Cubes, Arolla Aqua LT, Arolla Aqua, Sharpy X Frames and HY B-EYE K25s, was chosen by Lighting Designer Tim Routledge to illuminate the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 (ESC) held at the St. Jakobshalle arena in Basel, Switzerland.
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Lighting Designer Maya Strauss provided an evocative and deeply emotional visual backdrop for ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’, a saga of hardship, poverty and lost love at a recent production of the play at Rutgers’ Mason Gross Performing Arts. Her richly textured lighting design drew on the color rendering of the COLORado Solo Bar 4 from CHAUVET Professional.
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Freelance and production tickets for THE Conference: Live at Lititz 2025 are on sale now. THE Conference: Live at Lititz is the world’s leading live event conference focusing on production, touring, and leadership. Over 1,200 people attend the conference each year, which sells out months in advance.
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Rent All Pro delivered an impressive visual setup for Alejandro Fernández’s ‘De Rey a Rey’ Tour stop at the Honda Center in Anaheim. ROE Visual’s V8T and BP2V2 panels added visual depth and worked seamlessly with the lighting to complete the overall look of the production.
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Lighting Designer Nathan Brittain from Houston-based LD Systems oversaw a major lighting upgrade for the live concert element of this year’s Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo – aka Rodeo Houston, staged at NRG Stadium – which included adding over 150 Robe moving lights to the rig.
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Tim Routledge became one of the first production designers to specify GLP’s new versatile and supercharged Creos – part of a cornucopia of lighting that animated Florian Wieder’s coruscating set design at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Basel.
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