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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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Foundation for Stage Managers Announces Spring Fundraising Campaign

The Foundation for Stage Managers (FSM), formerly known as the Stage Managers’ Association Foundation, announces its Spring 2025 Fundraising Campaign. The campaign has a Valentine’s theme: Give your Stage Managers a little love. Starting Valentine’s Day, February 14, and running through March 14, FSM is seeking donations representing a love of Stage Managers, to fund grants to be awarded by the Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit established in 2022.

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The Joyce Theater Uses Blackmagic Design for Archival Workflow

Blackmagic Design announced that The Joyce Theater, a 472 seat dance and performance venue in the heart of Manhattan, relies on Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4K G2 and numerous Blackmagic Design converters to create archival footage of performances. The footage is used by dance companies for daily notes, as a record of a particular performance, or for teaching purposes for new dancers or stage managers.

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Robe Flies at The Panto

Lighting Designer Andy Webb specified Robe moving lights to be at the heart of his lighting designs for two high-profile pantomime shows in the United Kingdom, ‘The Further Adventures of Peter Pan’ staged at the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury and ‘Sleeping Beauty’ at the Festival Theatre in Malvern – two of 11 pantos presented this season by UK Productions.

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Lighting the Morality Play ‘Jedermann’ in Salzburg with Robe

Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Medieval morality play ‘Jedermann’ has become a classic centerpiece of the world-renowned Salzburg Festival, staged most years in the city’s Cathedral Square. 2024 saw the staging of a new, contemporary version created by Canadian Director Robert Carsen, a master of stagecraft and innovative thinking. Lighting was designed by Carsen and Giuseppe di Iorio, with the latter specifying Robe iFORTE LTXs.

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Eleventh Backstage Legends and Masters Award Going to Michael Wyatt

Purchase College, State University of New York’s Broadway Technical Theatre History Project will present the Eleventh “Backstage Legends and Masters Award” to Michael Wyatt on Monday, April 28, 2025 at 7 p.m. at The Performing Arts Center, Recital Hall Theatre. Wyatt started his Broadway career in 1978 and has now spent four and a half decades helping to shape and support a host of Broadway productions.

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