January 1, 2007
Features
The Future Is Here
Happy New Year! In 2007, we continue to look at promising young professionals in the fields of lighting, set, projection, and video content design and...
Curious George
We've all heard the tales of George Michael's antics over the past decade. Is he, or isn't he (fill in the blank: washed up, drug-addicted, drunk driving,...
Oklahoma, OK!
The brand new state celebrated in the signature song of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! hits the century mark this November. The 46th state...
Sweet Dreams
Leave it to Jules and Peggy lighting designers Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, that is to come up with the hard-hitting, emotionally motivated lighting...
Dolly's House
Both Santa Claus and Dolly Parton had a few surprises up their sleeves at the Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, TN, this holiday season, where ambition...
Space Age
If do-it-yourself originality is an extraterrestrial trait, then the Flaming Lips may be some of our most famous alien friends, who just happen to be...
Jesus Christ Superstar Rises Again
They had only three weeks to put on a show that typically requires six months of preplanning and design expertise, but that didn't deter producer/director...
Go
Grand Wrapping
Commuters who passed through New York City's Grand Central Station this past December and saw swirling yellow taxi cabs and spinning stars were not victims...
Live Design Master Classes Dates Announced For 2007
After a successful year in 2006, the Live Design Master Classes will return to New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and Tisch...
Five Questions For Mike Appel
You program lighting for a variety of projects, including most recently The Museum of the Moving Image Tribute to Will Smith, KORN Unplugged for MTV,...
Who's Doing What
Lighting designer and director Dan Boland was on the road this fall with Blue Man Group's tour, sharing lighting director duties with Benny Kirkham. The...
LMG Works With AVMG To Deliver Vertical Edge Blending
LMG, Inc. recently worked with production company AVMG to deliver the 2006 RiteAid annual conference. Held at the Anaheim Convention Center, the meeting...
What's Happening Behind The Scenes
Donations High At LDI During the second-half of 2006, The ESTA Foundation made quite a dent in its campaign for Behind the Scenes, raising more than $55,000...
Envision
Console Development: How Companies Take A Leap Of Faith
At LDI, a group of product managers participated in a session called Consoles: The Product Development Process. Along with a number of my esteemed colleagues,...
Getting Work Versus Making A Living
A successful technician is one who can consistently earn a good living at his craft and work on the kinds of jobs he prefers. For more and more techs,...
Build
Copy This!
News of the recent Urinetown controversy spread quickly through the theatre community when five members of the creative team the director, the choreographer,...
A Window On The World
Most of us have seen several forms of the television news studio with windows on a city street, complete with its background of people on the sidewalk...
Tech
RDM And Flickering Legacies
The RDM standard is now published, and products are coming on the market that use the methods described in the standard to collect information about equipment...
Product of the Month: Cast's Vivien Software
Cast Software, the company that created wysiwyg to help previsualize lighting, has done it again, this time for the event market, with Vivien-Virtual...
Product News
Tufted Panels Atomic Design, Inc. Tufted Panels debuted as a rental product at the BizBash M&C Meeting and Event Style Show in New York in November. They...
Editor's Note
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Ah, another Happy New Year, and with it comes the familiar sounds of wind howling, bells chiming, carolers singing (okay, maybe that was a week or two...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Thanks To Behind The Scenes I recently received a grant from The ESTA Foundation's Behind the Scenes program, and I want you to know how important and...
The Coast Of Utopia, Part 1
The sensation of the 2006-2007 theatre season in New York City is Tom Stoppard's epic trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, produced by Lincoln Center Theatre...
