TheatreDNA announced it has acquired Victor Gotesman Performing Arts Planning, one of the nation’s top research and consulting firms for feasibility studies and business planning in the cultural arts market.
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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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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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A brand new production of The Devil Wears Prada has hit the runway at the Dominion Theatre in London’s West End. The show’s lighting was supplied by PRG, in support of designer Bruno Poet’s sleek and elegant lighting design.
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USITT announced its 2025 Distinguished Achievement Award winners who will be honored on Thursday, March 6, at the Awards Ceremony in Columbus as part of USITT’s 65th Annual Conference & Stage Expo. We at Stage Directions in PLSN magazine send our sincere congratulations to all of these Distinguished Achievement Awards honorees.
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The Board of Directors of the Stage Managers’ Association Foundation (SMAF) voted, at its November 2024, meeting, to change its name. It is now DBA Foundation for Stage Managers (FSM). The mission of FSM is to support stage managers by providing funds for continuing career education and development, and for public events that enhance stage management skills.
Read More »The Foundation for Stage Managers (FSM), formerly known as the Stage Managers’ Association Foundation, is pleased to announce that three grantees – two arts organizations and an… Read More »The Newly Renamed Foundation for Stage Managers Announces Fall Grants
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The Entertainment Services and Technology Association (ESTA) has been recognized with the very first Event Safety Trailblazer award at this year’s Event Safety Summit. This honor celebrates ESTA’s outstanding leadership and unwavering commitment to advancing safety standards across the entertainment industry.
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Two-time Tony Award-winning lighting designer Donald Holder will join the faculty of David Geffen School of Drama at Yale as Professor in the Practice and will serve as Head of the Lighting Design Concentration at the Geffen School and Lighting Design Advisor at Yale Repertory Theatre, effective July 1, 2025.
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Reflecting the very real human drama that defines “Job” is a starkly beautiful, emotionally unsettling Mextly Couzin lighting design that encompasses the play’s complex world. Helping Couzin achieve the design vision is a collection of 48 CHAUVET Professional onAir Panel fixtures supplied by PRG.
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It is with much sadness that PLSN learned of the recent passing of John Fahnestock, who was most recently a Sales Manager with PSAV. He had taken a fall a few months ago and died in his sleep the week of Oct. 21, 2024.
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Richard C. Huggins, Founder of Theatre Magic and SFX Design, Inc. has sadly passed away. He was 78 years old. Jason Reberski, a mentee of Huggins wrote this In Memoriam for Huggins, who designed and created hundreds of custom effects on movies like ‘Gettysburg’, Broadway shows including ‘Miss Saigon’, ‘Phantom of the Opera’, and ‘Brigadoon’, as well as live spectaculars such as ‘Siegfried & Roy at The Mirage’.
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