Small venues are special. Putting on productions with small budgets and tight turnarounds can turn crowded spaces into exciting experiences. Continue reading for four tips on designing for small venues using Vectorworks Spotlight.Read More »Four Design Tips for Working at Smaller Venues from Vectorworks
Some beautiful design work was nominated for the 76th Annual TONY Awards this year and selecting winners was surely a difficult task. However, winners were indeed announced at the celebration of Broadway’s incredible season of work. Here is the list of the Tony Award worthy designs for 2023 with the winners highlighted.
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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
After a thorough search process, Shure has named Sameh “Sam” Sabet as its new Chief Technology Officer, replacing Avi Vaidya, who retired from that role. Sabet joins Shure after serving as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Head of Product Development and Delivery at Crestron Electronics.Read More »Shure Hires Sam Sabet as New Chief Technology Officer
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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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’
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 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
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
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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The WGA has made a statement that they will not picket the Tony Awards, thus clearing the way for the Broadway celebration to be broadcast live on June 11, 2023, with some adjustments. The ‘no picket line’ assurance means that members of other unions will now be able to attend and work the Tony Awards without crossing a WGA picket line.
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The productive and creative relationship between director and designer is an essential element to any theatrical work. In the American Theatre Wing’s latest ‘Working In The Theatre’ episode, Director LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Scenic Designer Beowulf Boritt discuss their work on the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson.’
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