April 1, 2007
Features
Singin' In The Rain
The artist currently known as Prince put on a truly royal performance at the Super Bowl XLI Halftime show on February 4 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami in...
Young Designers to Watch
Cynthia Nordstrom Residence: Chatham, NJ Position/title: Freelance costume designer Current project(s): Evil Dead the Musical at New Stages in New York...
What Goes Around, Comes Around
In today's flavor-of-the-month world, artists don't have long careers by chance. It takes talent not just the obvious, they must have talent, but other...
North Of The Border
The Biggest Little City's most recent downtown entertainment space, which takes its name from its 210 North Sierra Street address, has the modern influences...
Go
Poker Dome Tournament Flush With Color
It's all about high stakes, bright lights, and big money at the Poker Dome Challenge in Sin City: a 43-week series of speed-poker tournaments with a grand...
Five Questions For Kevin Adams, Lighting Designer
Your lighting for Spring Awakening has been described as an arresting mix of hanging bulbs, shafts of light, and arrays of neon tubing in the set and...
First Ivey Long Costume Exhibit
Cameron Art Museum in southeastern North Carolina will showcase the first exhibition of William Ivey Long's costume designs and sketches during an April...
Broadway Master Class Shows Announced
There is a lot of buzz on Broadway this season about Spring Awakening, the off-Broadway success story that moved to the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in December...
Independence Day
Greg Brunton of Design Partners lit Film Independent's 2007 Spirit Awards ceremony on February 24 inside a beachfront tent in Santa Monica, CA. Currently...
Eurovision Technical Partners Announced
After months of meetings, site surveys, and screen tests, Spectra Stage and Event Technologies and Eastway Sound & Lighting have finalized the technical...
Who's Doing What
Set designer Daniel Ostling, costume designer Mara Blumenfeld, and lighting designer TJ Gerckens will be making their Metropolitan Opera debut with Mary...
What I'm Using Now
To augment lighting at Miami Dolphin Stadium for the NFL Super Bowl XLI, JustLighting was asked to design a system that would temporarily assimilate with...
This Month In 1987
In the April 1987 issue of Theatre Crafts: The cover story featured The Hunger Artist (photographed in early tech rehearsals by Carol Rosegg/Martha Swope...
Envision
(Bad) Day In The Life Of An LD
Have you ever noticed that a bad gig can start off fairly normal? You may have no clue that you're headed into a job that will soon be filled with problems...
A Risen Star: One Year Later
Hard to believe a year has passed since receiving the Rising Star Award at USITT in Kentucky. I've been very busy and hope I've lived up to the expectations...
Build
How I Did That: Working For An Icon
I am employed by someone whose career is solidly entrenched in the history of music. Alan Parsons' contribution to rock 'n' roll is considered historical,...
Tech
Bringing Sexy (Light) Back
Laser light is sexy light. It produces the purest, tightest beams you can imagine. That's why it is routinely used as a special effect in large-scale...
Product of the Month: Sennheiser SK 5212 RF Wireless Bodypack Transmitter
Once again, Sennheiser proudly waves the flag of German engineering, having upped the ante with its SK 5212, one of the smallest wireless microphone bodypack...
Product Focus: Video and Video Processing
Spherical Mapping For DL.2 High End Systems Spherical Mapping is a new feature for the DL.2 Digital Light and Axon media server. The Version 1.3.2 software...
The Revolution Starts With One
recently designed projections for a new musical called Nerds: A Musical Software Satire for the Philadelphia Theatre Company. The show is a lighthearted satirical retelling of the history of the personal computer starring mildly truthful, but mostly fictional, characterizations of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Wozniak, etc. The show featured a 20'×10' rear-projection screen fed by a two-projector Watchout setup. The RP played several roles within the show. Most of the time, it was an animated backdrop, but occasionally, it became a character in the show....
Editor's Note
USITT Time And Other Tales Of Travel
Is it me, or was March the nuttiest month of travel ever? Am I talking to you? Maybe, but I'm mostly thinking aloud about the manner in which our staff...
Loadout
Sketchbook: Bob Mackie, Costume Designer
Known as the costumer to the stars, Bob Mackie has certainly dressed some of the world's leading ladies for stage, screen, and television: Bernadette...
