Andy Walmsley, production designer for the new American Idol set, has been involved with the various Idol productions for seven years, including doing...More
Lighting designer Thomas C. Hase worked on The Blonde, Brunette and Vengeful Redhead, a co-production of Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the Dallas...More
During Lent, Rome's old Jewish fish market, an extraordinary example of industrial architecture near the Eternal City's Circo Massimo, hosted the fourth...More
Mix magazine is rolling into Las Vegas October 24 to 26 for MixLive at LDI the only event of its kind in the world. MixLive goes beyond the typical equipment...More
As resident lighting designer at the New York City Ballet (NYCB) since 1986, you have lit and supervised the lighting for hundreds of ballets. What is...More
Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974) is one of his most dazzling films, centering on San Francisco-based wiretapper Harry Caul (Gene Hackman),...More
In a career spanning 20 years, Chicago-based sound designers Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen have created music and sound for productions as diverse as...More
This year's Live Design Lighting Products of Year represent a lineup of gear that's sure to cause a stir. Nominated and finally selected by our independent...More
This year's crop of Sound Products of the Year represents five of the best for theatre sound as chosen by our panel of judges. Why five and not the usual...More
Check out all the stories that made the cover of Live Design in 2008. From theatre to concerts, from Broadway to Paris, here is one of our cover newsmakers of the past year. The buzz on Broadway this season is a hip musical called Passing Strange. It all began in Berkeley, CA with a mid-40s African American rock roll musician......More
In the world of VJs, one name has consistently produced pioneering work and given us a glimpse of the success possible for AV acts. Formed in 1992 by...More
Den Norske Opera's new home on the waterfront in Oslo, the Operaen, has a silhouette as startling as Sydney's iconic opera house, but while Opera Australia...More
How do you design a reading? That was the question when Kenny Leon, who was to lead the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' month-long celebration...More
I have been working with the Forum in Charlotte for two and a half years. The venue always allows me the creative freedom to explore different and sometimes...More
Problem If you haven't seen one of Terry Gipson's production designs lately, chances are your kids have. Rhinebeck, NY-based Gipson Design Group has done...More
LIGHTING Maxxyz Compact Martin Professional Maxxyz Compact offers full Maxxyz functionality in a modular, mid-sized design. Four modules Cerebrum, Programmer,...More
Choosing product winners is no easy task, one of the many reasons we editors at Live Design don't do it. We leave that to the pros designers, programmers,...More
In the March issue, Splash of Color, about The Little Mermaid, it was not mentioned that Showman Fabricators sub-contracted the automation of the wave...More
A recent production of Tosca, seen in-the-round at London's Royal Albert Hall in February, represented the first public performance for Out Board Electronics'...More