Andrew Lloyd Webber’s timeless classic, ‘Starlight Express’, re-envisioned for the 21st century, has taken to the stage in the specially designed Starlight Auditorium at London’s state-of-the-art Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre. LD Howard Hudson’s rig includes some ICEFOG Qs and theONEs™ from MDG UK for the atmospherics in the production.
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Dreaming big isn’t just about having an idea; it’s about ambition—the drive to take action and the desire to go further. Across touring, corporate events, virtual production, sports, and house of worship, it is the fearless ambition that has elevated each exceptional team into the spotlight of the largest and most influential events around the globe. When teams unite with a shared vision for excellence, barriers are lifted, and the potential to Dream Big becomes the pathway to Going Big.
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UK-based Lighting Designer Phil Supple utilized 56 x Astera Tubes – 40 x Titan and eight each Hyperion and Helios – to illuminate 137 windows across 57 rooms at the George Heriot School in Edinburgh, Scotland, for ‘Where to Begin’, the opening event of the 2024 Edinburgh International Festival (EIF).
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Kuressaare Castle on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia, provided a magical backdrop and a beautiful setting for the 2024 Saaremaa Opera Festival. This year’s host company, Fundació Òpera Catalunya (The Catalan Opera) from Spain produced a week of special back-to-back opera shows and related events, with lighting equipment and crew supplied by Tallinn-based rental specialist E&T, comprising almost all Robe luminaires.
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Reflecting the intense emotions of Fous Chantants throughout the popular event was a bold and dynamic lighting design by Victor Lagiewski and Guillaume Fournier of Chromatik that featured 146 CHAUVET Professional projectors supplied by SGroup. Featured in the collection were Maverick Storm 2 and Rogue Outcast 1 BeamWashes, COLORado PXL Curve 12s, PXL Bar 16s, and Color STRIKE Ms.
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The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre (Gdański Teatr Szekspirowski) is a Shakespearean theatre in the middle of the thriving industrial port city of Gdansk in Poland. Designed by Italian architect Renato Rizzi, it opened in 2014 and is built on the site of a 17th-century theatre, known as the Fencing School, where English travelling players once performed English Renaissance Theatre works.
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On the first evening of Wacken Open Air, German medieval rockers In Extremo headlined on the Louder Stage. The band’s renowned Lighting Designer, Martin Heining, expanded his design especially for the Wacken show, by including 12 of the new high-performance Creos wash lights from by GLP, adding on to the already extensive festival design by LD Jerry Appelt.
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In just three years, Constanta, Romania’s Beach Please has become the largest urban music festival in Europe drawing hip hop, pop, and electronic headliners. The 2024 show featured a lighting rig comprising 430 moving light fixtures. To match the colossal scale of the production, Stage and Lighting Designer Andrei Predut of APart Productions brought in 36 Claypaky Skylos.
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Over 500 Robe moving lights were supplied by three top German rental and technical production companies to four main stages at the 2024 Lollapalooza Berlin festival, organized by Live Nation and staged over two days at the Olympiastadion (Olympic Stadium). The North and South stages, the Alternative Stage and Perry’s Stage all rocked Robe this year supplied by TSE (North), the Media Resource Group – MRG (South & Perry’s) and Sound Projekt (Alternative).
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The team at Milton Keynes-based Impact Productions Services (IPS) set up the production for the London Premiere of the reimagined classic at Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre. Everything went according to plan for them as they put up the lighting rig and video wall for this Limited Edition Event Design project, which was designed by Richard Godin. Helping to ensure smooth sailing for the event were REM 3IP LED Screen panels from CHAUVET Professional installed on the premier’s two screen structures.
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Scene Change Sydney has significantly broadened its production capabilities by acquiring 150 sqm of ROE Visual’s Topaz-Curve and Topaz panels, becoming the first in Australia to invest in TP-C. This latest investment enhances Scene Change’s ability to deliver seamless, visually impactful, and effortlessly managed productions. This expansion complements their existing inventory of 200 sqm of ROE’s Graphite panels, which recently took center stage at Paramount’s 2025 Upfronts.
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Moonbears and ADJ have made a new distribution agreement for ADJ products in the Netherlands. This collaboration is part of ADJ’s strategy to strengthen its market position in Europe and will provide a new route to market for ADJ entertainment lighting and atmospheric effect products in the country as well as increased support for smaller production and integration companies.
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