Stageline’s SL50 ultra portable stage, the first in the company’s new Light Series stages, measures 20’ by 16’ ( 6.1m by 4.9m). Features include a fiberglass roof, light and sound rigging, full banner capability and an option of two roof heights. It can be towed by a SUV or pick up truck and set up in less than 30 minutes, and reduced trailer dimensions expand parking options.
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NEW YORK — Two of the several documents that make up the E1.6 project for powered rigging systems in the entertainment industry are available for public review: BSR E1.6-1 – 201x, Entertainment Technology – Powered Hoist Systems, and BSR E1.6-4 – 201x, Portable Control of Fixed-Speed Electric Chain Hoists in the Entertainment Industry.
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LOS ANGELES — A.C.T Lighting has been named North American distributor for all A&O/alpha one products. The company will display fixtures from the Falcon range at Lightfair 2011 in Philadelphia (booth #1008).
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Da-Lite High Power Surface with High Contrast The new High Contrast version of Da-Lite’s High Power screen surface is designed for conditions where ambient light… Read More »Da-Lite High Power Surface with High Contrast
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Lex Products’ PowerGATE product line’s new UL 1008 Listed Emergency Lighting Transfer Switches (ELTS), in Main feed and Discrete feed models, are designed to help venue owners ensure that audiences won’t be left in the dark following a power outage.
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LONDON, UK – Goboland has made a variety of custom and standard gobos for the wartime-era musical Betty Blue Eyes which opened last week at the Novello Theatre in London’s West End. Based on Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray’s BAFTA-winning 1984 film A Private Function, Betty Blue Eyes is set in the ration-stricken Britain of 1947. It tells the story of a pig, raised illegally to provide the local dignitaries with a feast to celebrate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip – a wedding feast out of keeping with the austerity of the times.
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MISSOULA, MT – The final brick has been placed, and the doors have been closed on the container carrying the USITT/USA exhibits which will be part of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space from June 16 to 26 in Prague, Czech Republic. A team of faculty and students at the University of Montana in Missoula constructed the exhibits which will be part of PQ 2011, along with displays from more than 60 other countries and regions. Curators selected 37 productions for the USITT-USA National Exhibit. They reflect the social and political issues consuming American performance-makers today.
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