Designer/Dramaturg John Conklin passed away on June 24, 2025, in Cooperstown, NY. Born on June 22, 1937, Conklin was 88. The designer had come out of retirement to design four operas this summer at the Glimmerglass Festival, where he had a long association. The company is dedicating the season to Conklin. Requiescat in Pace, John Conklin.
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Robe’s Estonian distributor, Tallin-based E&T, is in the final stages of delivering an enormous order for moving and LED lights for 10 major theaters across the country, where all forms of live performance are strongly engrained in Estonian culture.
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The Ruth and Nathan Hale Theater has quickly established itself as a premier performing arts venue. With an Elation lighting system enhancing the experience, the venue is poised to deliver top-class productions for years to come.
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The Stage Managers’ Association (SMA) has announced its annual Del Hughes Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management. The SMA celebrates its 25th Del Hughes Awards this year, honoring those who represent the finest qualities and artistic achievement in Stage Management.
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The 78th Annual Tony Awards returned to the legendary Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday, June 8, 2025. This year included a near sweep for the design team of one play. PLSN congratulates all the nominees and winners.
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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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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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ETC has long been committed to providing charitable support to the performing arts; the education of upcoming generations of technical and design professionals; and the… Read More »ETC Philanthropy Program Gifts Lighting Packages to Four Organizations Making a Difference in the Theater Industry
Read More »The 78th Annual Tony Awards will return to the legendary Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday, June 8, 2025. Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing’s 78th Annual Antoinette Perry Tony Awards® have now been announced.
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When LD Jared Sayeg started planning the design for ‘Topdog/Underdog’ for the Pasadena Playhouse, he knew he needed fixtures that “could truly accommodate both slow smooth fades and sharp shuttering as well as big strokes of light that engulf the playing space.” He turned to GLP impression X5 IP Bars for his solution.
Read More »‘Redwood’, the highly anticipated new musical opened at The Nederlander Theatre on February 13th, 2025. PRG is proud to have supported the production with an extensive range of services, including scenic, automation, lighting, audio, and video, displayed gloriously over the largest LED display ever seen on Broadway.
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The Perelman Performing Arts Center offers three configurable performance spaces that flexibly combine or divide into over 60 configurations. Experts from The Chicago Flyhouse, Inc. and ELPLANT ensured the theaters could support dynamic and safe changes using PC-based control and EtherCAT technologies from Beckhoff.
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