Since the last education issue in October 2007, a lot has happened within the field of projection design . We've been added to the designers' union, United...More
Madeleine Bernatchez SCENIC DESIGN Madeleine is a gifted designer, conceptual artist, and director. She is highly skilled in all media associated with...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. What is most surprising about Roy Bennett's production and lighting design for the latest Nine Inch Nails tour the designer's fourth with the band is......More
From the opening gavel at the Pepsi Center in Denver this past August, it was obvious this was going to be a very different Democratic Convention...More
Located in the heart of the historic Colony District of Anaheim and opened this past June, Club Ember is a dazzling homage to 1930s glamour conjured out...More
This year, one of Giacomo Puccini's earliest, lesser-known operas, Edgar, was performed for the first time ever at the Puccini Festival, the annual summer...More
Behind the glitzy facades of Las Vegas hotels, where a million megawatts of electricity illuminate the night, nightclubs have discovered that video is...More
Even as housing prices plummet, homes remain beyond reach for too many theatres. Under-funded and struggling to survive, young theatres, and a growing...More
Disney darlings the Jonas Brothers just wrapped the second leg of the massive Burning Up tour in support of debut album, It's About Time, with additional...More
You are a sound design professor at Cornish College for the Arts in Seattle. How does sound design fit into the overall design program there? We're a...More
American music legend Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers recently concluded a summer North American tour that saw the three decades-old band rock playing...More
Seattle Opera celebrates general director Speight Jenkins' 25th anniversary season with a new production of Strauss' Elektra in repertory October 18 to...More
There's no getting around it: designing for a living is not an easy way to make a career. There's a lot of personal sacrifice involved, and unless you're...More
Acoustic design for large performance spaces has come a long way. Concert halls and opera houses are being planned or built in Orlando, Las Vegas (really!),...More
How strong should a temporary structure be made to withstand winds that may be encountered during its brief lifespan? The answer is less definitive than...More
Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman unfolds in an interrogation room where a writer is investigated because the plots of his gruesome stories resemble...More
When Apple released the iPhone last year, it was hard to deny that this little piece of technology would be a game changer. It's sleek yet sophisticated...More
The Rua Medium Throw Followspot, part of Selecon's Performer Series of followspots, takes full advantage of the Philips Quick Fit mini MSR lamp for variable...More
Additional new products being shown at LDI will be featured in the November issue of Live Design as well as in the LDI Show Daily at www.livedesignonline.com....More
Maybe it's the economy or simply a growing demand for smaller footprint boards that consume fewer of those profitable seats in prime main floor spots,...More
Another year, another LDI. In fact, I have a feeling I say this same thing every year. I guess I have redundancy issues. But this is no ordinary LDI hmmm,...More
September Gold Congratulations on your incredible story on the opening ceremoniesWe were blown away and also dying to know how everything was done. Such...More
Never one to shrink from technically challenging productions, executive producer Joe Melillo has brought Gsli rn Gardarsson's Icelandic production of...More