March 1, 2007
Features
War Games
The most intriguing themed project to open in some time is one you will never have a chance to experience that is, unless you join the US Navy. In the...
2007 USITT Rising Star: John Horan, Lighting Designer
This year's USITT Rising Star is lighting designer John Horan, who hails from Chicago and has kept quite busy in theatre production these past few years....
The Art Of Lighting Revivals And Transfers
Shows tour. Shows transfer. Shows are revived, sometimes right away, sometimes many years after the original production has come and gone. Sets and costumes...
City On The Sound
Three decades of planning by the arts, civic, and business leaders in Edmonds, WA, culminated at the end of this past September with the completion of...
Globetrotting
When William Shakespeare and his company first set up shop on the south side of the Thames to produce plays in the Globe Theatre, the 16th century was...
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Clip Art
Imaginative films are often tempting subjects for stage adaptations, which is exactly the case with Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton's popular 1990 film...
FIVE QUESTIONS FOR Paul Rubin, Aerial Designer
I love working on original productions because that situation allows me to be most creative. I start developing my ideas as soon as I read the script...
Polishing a Radio City Tradition
We all have holiday traditions things that connect us from one generation to the next. One of the most popular wintertime traditions is the 75-year-old...
The Slots At Ajax Downs
When Ontario Lottery and Gaming hired Eastern Construction Company Ltd. and architects Mackay Wong Strategic Design to build the new Slots at Ajax Downs...
Eurovisiondiary.com Goes Live March 1
Fans of the Eurovision diary (www.eurovisiondiary.com) will be happy to know that the famed chronicle begins a new journey on March 1, describing the...
Diva Bling
Diva Bling, the grand-opening night party for the 2007 Special Event Show in January glittered across 96,000-sq-ft. of the Los Angeles Convention Center,...
Who's Doing What
Lighting designer Cindy Limauro has designed a new production of The Magic Flute for the Pittsburgh Opera, opening this month, and a Balanchine Fest for...
What I'm Using Now
There is a tiny bit of gear that has been in my briefcase for almost two years now. It has nothing to do with lighting design, but it's become absolutely...
2007 BLMC Faculty Announced
Jules Fisher, creative consultant for Live Design's Broadway Lighting Master Classes (BLMC), has announced a distinguished faculty of leading lighting...
This Month In. 1987
This year marks a milestone for our franchise, celebrating 40 years covering theatre starting with Theatre Crafts, 30 years covering lighting with Lighting...
Envision
Waiting For Gobo
Convergence isn't coming. It's here. The edge for manufacturers is no longer proprietary equipment, protocols, or connectivity it's the better-designed...
A Sound Odyssey
Over the past five years, I have gone from running a highly ranked theatre school program to becoming a student in a completely different one not the...
Sylvia Hillyard Pannell
Sylvia Hillyard Pannell, professor of drama at the University of Georgia, took office last year as president of USITT (United States Institute for Theatre...
Build
Christmas At Resurrection
Show Synopsis Two thousand six was the second year for Christmas at Resurrection, a musical celebration featuring a 200-voice choir, 75-piece orchestra,...
Balancing Act
Problem: When Christine Jones was designing sets for Spring Awakening on Broadway and The Onion Cellar at the American Repertory Theatre in Boston, she...
Sketchbook
Sketchbook: Outfitting See What I Wanna See
Boston's Lyric Stage Company production of See What I Wanna See, written by Michael John LaChiusa, just wrapped last month. The musical deals with love,...
Tech
Product of the Month: PRG Series 400 Power And Data-Distribution System
The Series 400 power and data-distribution system from Production Resource Group (PRG) is designed to distribute power and data in a safe and efficient...
PRODUCT NEWS
Product Focus: Moving Lights VL3500 Wash Vari-Lite The VL3500 Wash luminaire has an output that exceeds 50,000 lumens. Features include internal zoomable...
Editor's Note
Sounding Off
It seems I'm not tired of talking about sound yet, this being my third column in a row discussing such topics as Should we, or should we not? (cover sound,...
Load Out
The Coast of Utopia, Part 3
The stage has been set, and the curtain has gone up on the final installment of Tom Stoppard's sweeping trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, at Lincoln Center...
