February 1, 2007
Features
The Future Keeps On Coming
We've received so many promising entries for young design professionals that we're going to keep profiling them so you can keep an eye on what they're...
Cherry On Top
Anyone who walks into that club for the first time walks out of there with a neck ache because you can't stop looking at it it's really insane, says Stephen...
School Of Rock
Teenage angst and powerhouse vocal talent that's what Disney put on the road this winter with High School Musical: The Concert, a showcase of performers...
Wiz Kids
A musical revival is not usually the victim of divorce, but when New York-based Dodger Productions Joop Van den Ende's Amsterdam-based Stage Entertainment...
Taking The Plunge
It stands to reason that the popular 2003 Disney-Pixar animated film Finding Nemo would find its way into the Disney theme parks. First came EPCOT's The...
Go
A Night At The Museum
What could be worth standing outside on a freezing night in midtown Manhattan? Imagine a visual production so intense, so larger-than-life that it consumes...
Russia's Historic Maly Theatre In New Light
On September 4, 2006, the Maly Theatre in Moscow celebrated its troupe's 250th anniversary, making it the oldest in Russia. The theatre marked this milestone...
Theatre Projects Celebrates 50 Years
Theatre Projects Consultants (TPC) began a yearlong celebration of its 50th anniversary with a cocktail party on 42nd Street in New York City in the Penthouse...
FIVE QUESTIONS FOR Neil Mazzella, Hudson Scenic
Known primarily for production design, custom scenic fabrication, and automation services, Hudson Scenic changed gears when lighting designer Don Holder...
Award-Winning Theatrical LD Chris Parry Dies
Internationally acclaimed theatre and opera lighting designer Chris Parry died in January at age 54 in San Diego, where he was a professor in the Department...
Visual Echo A-Go-Go
It was a night of firsts at the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architecture (AIA) with the recent opening of Visual Echo, an interactive...
Lakewood Takes Sunday Service On The Road
Lakewood Church of Houston (Lighting Dimensions, October 2005), the mega-church headed by Pastor Joel Osteen, takes its Sunday service on tour each month....
Pyramids And Pussycats
Egyptian telecom company Orascom marked its 50 millionth subscriber with a celebration at the Pyramids in Giza, where guests were housed in a large tent...
Envision
Light And The Human Condition
There is an interesting conversation going on in lighting land across the globe about a particular subject: light and the human condition. Like photosynthesis...
Build
Making The Cut
Problem When Terry Gipson (www.gipsondesigngroup.com) began to design MTV2's Dew Circuit Breakout, a competition for best new band in the US that aired...
Tech
Product Review: Cycling '74 Max/MSP 4.6 With Jitter 1.6
In every era, creative expression has been both empowered and limited by the available tools. And while there are plenty of great off-the-shelf power...
Product of the Month: ETC Eos Console
Electronic Theatre Controls has a long history of great control consoles continuing with the introduction of the Eos, a paradigm shift in the lighting...
Product News
Product Focus: Club Effects SoftSkies SoundSpectrum SoftSkies is a music visualizer and screen saver that produces photo-realistic cloudscapes with color...
Where Do Images Come From?
In November, we discussed how to make crystal-clear scans from preexisting analog media. This means any kind of printed image that already exists in nature:...
Editor's Note
Sound Advice
So, the votes are in, the opinions tallied. Okay, this isn't necessarily a democracy, but after last month's issue in which I queried our readership for...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Editor's note: These two letters are in response to Wendall K. Harrington's sidebar Video Black, Oy Vey! to A Tale Of Two Edies (Live Design, December...
Loadout
The Coast Of Utopia, Part 2
Lincoln Center Theatre's production of Tom Stoppard's remarkable trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, continues to dazzle audiences at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre,...
