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SMA Announces 2025 Del Hughes Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management

The Stage Managers’ Association (SMA) has announced its annual Del Hughes Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management.  The distinguished 2025 honorees are theatrical Production Stage Managers Jill Cordle, Marjorie Horne and Judy Martel. The SMA will also honor Lisa Dawn Cave with The Founders Award, and the Special Recognition Award for the Broadway Advocacy Coalition.

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Maya Strauss Evoke Timeless Mood of Summer in ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’ with CHAUVET

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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GLP impression X5 IP Bars Play Key Role in ‘Topdog/Underdog’

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.

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There’s a Stage for Every Story at PAC NYC Using Flexible Automation

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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‘Swept Away’: An Emotional Journey on the High Seas

‘Swept Away’, the much-talked-about Broadway musical, based on the album, Mignonette by American folk-rock band The Avett Brothers, was inspired by the true story of the shipwreck of a British yacht in 1884. It follows four sailors stranded at sea for nearly three weeks and the moral dilemma they ultimately face. PRG provided lighting, scenic, and automation for the dynamic production.

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