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LD Systems Ramps Up the Robe for Rodeo Houston

Lighting Designer Nathan Brittain from Houston-based LD Systems oversaw a major lighting upgrade for the live concert element of this year’s Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo – AKA Rodeo Houston, staged at NRG Stadium – which included adding over 150 Robe moving lights to the rig.

Mike Berger and Travis Hagenbuch Create Versatile Light Wall at ACMA with CHAUVET Professional

Lighting Designers Michael Berger and Travis Hagenbuch recently lit the 60th Anniversary show of the Academy of Country Music Awards that took place at Dallas, TX's Ford Center. The rig included a number of CHAUVET Professional fixtures. Lighting for this television special was supplied by PRG and Kinetic Lighting.

InfoComm 2025 Preview Roundup – UPDATED

InfoComm 2025 is coming up, June 7 - 13, with exhibits happening June 11 - 13 at the Orange County Convention Center, West Building | Orlando, FL. Here's an UPDATED roundup of the news from manufacturers and distributors - PLSN advertisers - that will be exhibiting at InfoComm, all in one convenient place.

Zeo Lights Up Academy of Country Music Awards

At the 60th Academy of Country Music Awards, legendary artists took the stage to celebrate six decades of country music. To help the star-studded performances shine brightly, Co-Lighting Designers Travis Hagenbuch and Michael Berger brought in High End Systems Zeo fixtures.

GLP Creos Washlights Used at this Year’s Eurovision Song Contest

Tim Routledge became one of the first production designers to specify GLP’s new versatile and supercharged Creos – part of a cornucopia of lighting that animated Florian Wieder’s coruscating set design at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Basel.

The Eurovision Song Contest is now one of the biggest, brightest and most colorful live productions in the world, and the 2025 edition boasted the biggest rig in Eurovision history. Ayrton fixtures played a key role in Tim Routledge’s spectacular and ever-changing, metamorphic design.

Mexican band Matute is touring Mexico and the U.S. with their 'Disco Stereo' Tour, which takes fans on a journey through the most iconic LPs of the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s. Claypaky fixtures light up the stage as Matute blends the analog charm of vinyl with immersive visuals and a setlist packed with dance floor classics.

Rent All Pro delivered an impressive visual setup for Alejandro Fernández’s 'De Rey a Rey' Tour stop at the Honda Center in Anaheim. Using ROE Visual’s V8T and BP2V2 panels to add visual depth and worked seamlessly with the lighting to complete the overall look of the production.

Elation launches its new OPS Series (Outdoor Permanent Specification), a durable, long-lasting solution for permanent outdoor installations. The OPS series enhances some of Elation’s most popular IP65/66-rated lighting fixtures, providing a ruggedized version designed specifically for demanding environments.

As the curtain closes on the 2024–25 Broadway season, PRG is proud to reflect on another standout year supporting some of the most ambitious and acclaimed productions on stage. This season, 42 Tony-eligible shows opened. PRG played a role in 39 of them.

Freelance and production tickets for THE Conference: Live at Lititz 2025 are on sale now. THE Conference: Live at Lititz is the world’s leading live event conference focusing on production, touring, and leadership. Over 1,200 people attend the conference each year, which sells out months in advance.

Mike Steinbrecher joins ioversal as Director of Global Sales. With over 20 years of experience in media servers and real-time graphics, he brings a unique combination of technical expertise and international sales experience.

Brad Schiller has joined GLP to lead the new Lighting Technology Engagement Team, based out of the company’s Americas headquarters in Los Angeles, CA. Schiller has been at the forefront of many lighting innovations from his work with manufacturers, while also being the author of multiple industry articles and books.

The lighting design community is mourning the loss of Paul Marantz, co-founder of Fisher Marantz Stone. A lighting visionary who, through his extraordinary contributions to architectural lighting design, has helped to transform the perception of lighting design as a profession.

Product of the Week

Wenger Introduces Summit Theatron™ Hoist

The Wenger | J.R. Clancy Summit Theatron Hoist has been engineered as an economical solution for high school Theatres, university theatres, and churches. With safety as a top priority and quality as a standard, it offers optimal capacity, travel, speed, and load sensing to meet the demands of any performance space.

Video of the Week

Designer Scott Pask on the Set for ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’

Scenic Designer Scott Pask recreated the CBS newsroom and Edward R. Murrow's set for Broadway's 'Good Night, and Good Luck'. Pask's TONY-nominated set, fabricated by PRG Scenic Technologies, helps bring the 1950s McCarthy-era drama to life. Pask discusses why architectural accuracy was so important for a play that's about "speaking truth to power."

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Points, Perks, and Plastic: Getting the Most from Your Credit Card

Rachael Bronstein points out how to ensure your credit cards are benefiting your finances, as well as considerations of points, perks, and the foundational habits that keep a credit card working for you, not against you.

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