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The Stage Managers’ Association Announces 2023 Del Hughes Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management

The Del Hughes Award, The Founders Award & Special Recognition Honorees 2023 Top: Del Hughes Honorees John M. Atherlay, Gwen Gilliam, Brett Finley Bottom: Founders Award Honoree Elynmarie Kazle, Special Recognition Honorees Robert J. Bruyr, Broadway & Beyond: Access for Stage Managers of Color Founders Lisa Dawn Cave, Beverly Jenkins, Jimmie Lee Smith and Kenneth J. McGee.

The Stage Managers’ Association (SMA) has announced its annual Del Hughes Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management. The distinguished 2023 honorees are theatrical production stage managers John M. Atherlay and Gwen Gilliam, and opera production stage manager Brett Finley. In addition to these Lifetime Achievement Awards, the SMA will honor Elynmarie Kazle with The Founders Award.Read More »The Stage Managers’ Association Announces 2023 Del Hughes Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management

Broadway Theaters Dimmed Lights in Memory of Award-Winning Scenic Designer Robin Wagner

The Broadway community honored the memory of Robin Wagner, the triple Tony Award®-winning scenic designer who worked on more than 60 Broadway shows in a career that spanned over five decades. Mr. Wagner passed away on May 29, 2023, at the age of 89. On June 17, 2023, the Committee of Theatre Owners dimmed the lights of Broadway theatres in New York for one minute at exactly 7:45pm, in his honor.Read More »Broadway Theaters Dimmed Lights in Memory of Award-Winning Scenic Designer Robin Wagner

Student Designers Appraise Elation Lighting on Yale’s Carlotta Festival

A scene from ‘Furlough’s Paradise’ with a lighting design by Yichen Zhou. The Carlotta Festival, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, 2023. Photo © T. Charles Erickson.

In partnership with dry-hire rental house Main Light, Elation Professional provided Fuze MAX™ series moving head luminaires to David Geffen School of Drama at Yale for use on the school’s annual Carlotta Festival, which showcases plays written, directed, acted and designed by students. The Carlotta Festival features three fully produced new plays by graduating playwrights performed in rotating repertory. The plays presented in this year’s festival, which ran May 5–12 at the Iseman Theatre, included littleboy/littleman by Rudi Goblen (directed by Jacob Basri); Furlough’s Paradise by a.k. payne (directed by Leyla Levi); and Color Boy by Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel (directed by Jecamiah M. Ybañez). Read More »Student Designers Appraise Elation Lighting on Yale’s Carlotta Festival

The Design Winners of the 67th Annual Drama Desk Awards

On May 31, 2023 the winners for the 67th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced. In keeping with the Drama Desk‘s mission, the nominators considered shows that opened on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway during the 2022-2023 season for this year’s awards. Among the winners are Life of Pi designers: Tim Hatley for Lighting and Andrzej Goulding for Projection and Video. Here is a glimpse of their award-winning work and a list of all the Drama Desk design winners.

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Christopher Robin and CHAUVET Professional Create Colors for ‘Seussical’

All the world may be a stage, as the great Bard wrote, but when it comes to theatrical productions, it’s often the characters on the stage who determine how that world spins. In the case of the Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty musical comedy, Seussical, that spin definitely revolves around fun. Even by the standards of whimsical comedies, this one, based on the works of the famed Dr. Seuss, is filled with an abundance of exuberant characters, from Yertle the Turtle and Gertrude McFuzz, to Sour Kangaroo and the Wickersham Brothers, not to mention familiar figures like The Cat in the Hat, and The Grinch.Read More »Christopher Robin and CHAUVET Professional Create Colors for ‘Seussical’

Pasadena Playhouse to Receive 2023 Regional Theatre Tony Award

The Tony Awards® Administration Committee has announced that based on the recommendation by the American Theatre Critics Association, Pasadena Playhouse, in Pasadena, CA, will be the recipient of the 2023 Regional Theatre Tony Award. The honor is accompanied by a grant of $25,000, made possible by City National Bank’s generous support.Read More »Pasadena Playhouse to Receive 2023 Regional Theatre Tony Award

Roundabout’s Theatrical Workforce Development Program Received Mayoral Citation; Now Accepting Applications

Now Accepting Applications for Cohort 6, a Three-Year Initiative to Educate & Train a New Generation of Theatre Professionals

Roundabout Theatre Company and Education at Roundabout announced a Mayoral Citation honoring the Theatrical Workforce Development Program (TWDP), the theatre industry’s first workforce development program to train and place young adults in professional technical theatre careers.Read More »Roundabout’s Theatrical Workforce Development Program Received Mayoral Citation; Now Accepting Applications

Vectorworks, Inc. Congratulates the 2023 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Regional Winners

Region 4 winner Mari Davis, North Carolina Central University, for ‘Long Time Since Yesterday’

As a continued supporter of student designers, global design, and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. honors the winners of this year’s Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) regional awards. KCACTF is a national theater program involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities across the United States.Read More »Vectorworks, Inc. Congratulates the 2023 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Regional Winners

USITT24 Seattle Call for Proposals

USITT will be held in Seattle for 2024, taking place March 20-23, 2024. USITT’s mission is to connect performing arts, design, and technology communities to ensure a vibrant dialog among practitioners, educators, and students. USITT invites people to submit an education session proposal for presentation at USITT in Seattle.

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