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Blizzard Lighting Launches its Verismo™ Line of Theatrical Luminaires

Looking to bring better ambience to each stage, and audience, Blizzard Lighting unveiled its new, flagship line of ellipsoidal and Fresnel luminaires: Verismo. The line delivers breathtaking perspective on stage and boasts professional features such as HSIC color mixing, natural “true tone” light output and near-perfect CRIs. ETL-listed, the Verismo line of luminaires is designed for a variety of applications including theater, video, and production studios. Here’s a video hands-on demo of Blizzard’s  Verismo™ Fresnel & Profile in WW + RGBALC:

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Cameo Presents P-Series – LED Profile Spotlights at LDI 2022

The new P2 FC, the full-color profile spotlight, with RGBAL LEDs, from Cameo

At LDI 2022, Cameo, the lighting brand of the Adam Hall Group will present its first profile spotlight for professional theater and TV use in its Booth #2055. Cameo will present its new P-Series LED profile spotlights that are aimed at professional users from the theater, TV, and event sectors and are available in Tungsten, Daylight, and Full-Color versions.  In addition to its light output and flexible handling, the P-series also provides extremely high CRI and TLCI values as well as a lifelike white light and color rendering. To meet the exacting requirements of lighting designers, Cameo has developed the P series of LED profile spotlights. As well as the new P-Series LED profiles, Cameo will also demonstrate its new IP65 rated LED Soft Panel S4 IP from the new S-Series. Furthermore, visitors to the Cameo booth (#2055) can see for themselves the AZOR® S2 Spot Moving Head and the ZENIT® W600 SMD LED Outdoor Wash Light.Read More »Cameo Presents P-Series – LED Profile Spotlights at LDI 2022

Pliant® Technologies Showcases New CrewCom Control Unit, CCU-08, at LDI 2022

The front view of the CCU-08 CrewCom Control Unit, new from Pliant Technologies

Pliant Technologies, a leading provider of professional wireless intercom solutions, will showcase its CCU-08 CrewCom Control Unit at LDI 2022 (Booth 406). The CCU-08 is the latest addition to the CrewCom system and gives users the ability to use up to eight 4-Wire ports while retaining all the same features of the current companion CCU-22 and CCU-44 products.Read More »Pliant® Technologies Showcases New CrewCom Control Unit, CCU-08, at LDI 2022

Huge Vari-Lite VL2600 Rig Invokes Vintage Rock Glamour for Panic! at the Disco


U.S. rockers Panic! at the Disco kickstarted their highly anticipated Viva Las Vengeance arena tour at Austin, TX’s Moody Center in September, with a ’70s and ’80s rock-influenced high-octane show. Conjuring up rich colors and sharp beams were 128 VL2600 PROFILE luminaires from Vari-Lite, the originator of the modern moving head and a Signify entertainment lighting brand.Read More »Huge Vari-Lite VL2600 Rig Invokes Vintage Rock Glamour for Panic! at the Disco

Tyler Veneziano Creates Beefy Background for Breaking Benjamin with Help From Chauvet Professional

Fans didn’t stay in their seats for long when Breaking Benjamin took the stage on their recent tour with Alice In Chains. The multi-platinum rockers from Pennsylvania opened their show with a bang, or make that a blaze, when they appeared against an intense pyro display and broke into a full throttled rendition of “Blow Me Away,” their thunderous and menacing hit from Halo 2.Read More »Tyler Veneziano Creates Beefy Background for Breaking Benjamin with Help From Chauvet Professional

Fisher and Tipton the Ming Cho Lee Lifetime Achievement in Design Honorees

Legendary lighting designers Jules Fisher and Jennifer Tipton were each honored with the Ming Cho Lee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Design, bestowed by the Henry Hewes Design Awards during the 58th annual awards ceremony on Oct. 24. “In honoring Jules Fisher and Jennifer Tipton,” said Jeffrey Eric Jenkins, chair of the awards committee, “we celebrate two pioneers who have given us so many important dramatic memories—and have lit the way for those who follow.”

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Astera Titans for Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival

Astera Titan Tubes provided a great solution for the lighting of a rolling ‘small stage’ scenic truck which was central to the action for the 2022 Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival’s acclaimed production of Alessandro nell’Indie (Alexander in India) by Leonardo Vinci, directed by Max Emmanuel Cancic and lit by David Debrinay from Paris and Lyon, France, based design studio, LJOMA. Three unique performances were staged at the beautiful Margravial Opera House (Markgräfliches Opernhaus), a UNESCO World Heritage site.Read More »Astera Titans for Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival

Hometown Hero Voting Begins!

The voting for the Parnelli Hometown Hero – Lighting Company of the Year Award is now open. PLSN readers get to vote for the six top regional lighting companies in North America—one for each of five U.S. regions, and a sixth for all of Canada. These votes will narrow the field from 36 to six regional winners, who will then appear on the Parnelli Awards ballot for a second round of voting. The winner will receive the Parnelli Award for Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year at the awards ceremony in Anaheim, CA.Read More »Hometown Hero Voting Begins!

Parnelli Awards Nominations NOW OPEN!

Nominations are now being accepted for the next Parnelli Awards ceremony, to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA on Friday, April 14, 2023, during the NAMM Show. Anyone can now nominate live event professionals and companies who exemplify the best of the best in our industry for a Parnelli Award, the most prestigious award in our industry. The deadline for Parnelli nominations is Dec. 16, 2022, 5 p.m. PST.

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