Welcome to the Projects In Focus site, where Live Design will regularly highlight a specific project in more editorial depth, including image galleries, plots and renderings, videos, interviews and more. Check back regularly to see what project were featuring next.
Bon Jovi Because We Can: The Tour
Bon Jovi's Because We Can: The Tour features production design by Doug "Spike" Brant and his team at Performance Environment Design. Check out our extensive coverage of the visuals.
Pippin On Broadway
A bold new staging of the 1972 existential musical in its first Broadway revival. Pippin, on a death-defying journey to find his "corner of the sky," must choose between a life that's ordinary or a flash of singular glory. Moving to Broadway form ART in Boston, directed by Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus.
Matilda On Broadway
Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical on Broadway features set and costume design by Rob Howell, a faculty member at the Broadway Scenic Master Classes. It also includes lighting design by Hugh Vanstone and sound design by Scott Lehrer.
Lucky Guy On Broadway
Lucky Guy, written by Nora Ephron and starring Tom Hanks, features lighting design by Broadway Lighting Master Classes creative consultant and multiple Tony Award winner Jules Fisher and his design partner, Tony Award winner Peggy Eisenhauer, set design by David Rockwell, and projection design by Batwin + Robin.
Ultra Music Festival 2013
Ultra Music Festival 2013 (UMF) is the largest incarnation of the electronic music festival yet, now in its 15th year and spanning two weekends, with stages designed by Bruce Rodgers and James Klein, and UMF veteran Steve Lieberman.
Super Bowl XLVII 2013 Halftime Show
The Super Bowl XLVII 2013 Halftime Show with Beyonce featured production design by Bruce Rodgers of tribe inc, and lighting by Al Gurdon....
Annie On Broadway
Check out our extensive coverage of Annie on Broadway, with lighting design by Don Holder, set design by David Korins, projection design by Wendall K. Harrington, and sound design by Brian Ronan....
Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, and Rihanna at Baku Crystal Hall
Going global was the theme for the production team working on a trio of solo concerts in late September/early October for rock divas Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, and Rihanna at Baku Crystal Hall in Azerbaijan as part of the FIFA Womens World Cup soccer championships. ...
Madonna MDNA Tour
Madonna's creative team includes show director Michel Laprise, set designer Mark Fisher, lighting designer Al Gurdon, production manager Jake Berry, video technical director Stefaan Desmedt, choreographers Rich + Tone, and multimedia content created by Moment Factory. ...
Queen Extravaganza Tribute Tour
Check out our extensive coverage of the official Queen tribute show, Queen Extravaganza, with musicians and singers hand picked by Roger Taylor and Brian May, original members of the band, in a nation-wide talent search. The tour celebrates Queens music, still hot more than 20 years after the death of Freddie Mercury in 1991. ...
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Wrecking Ball Tour
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band is on tour yet again, this time in support of Wrecking Ball, with longtime collaborator Jeff Ravitz providing production and lighting design and Bruce Rodgers of Tribe inc, lending some stage design....
Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show
Once again production designer Bruce Rodgers of Tribe Inc. created an eye-popping halftime show for Super Bowl XLVI, featuring Madonna on a set built by All Access Staging, video gear provided by LMG, with Green Hippo Hippotizers via programmer Jason Rudolph, pyro design by Ron Smith, pyro services by J.E.M F/X, rigging by Stage Rigging, lighting services by PRG and Full Flood, and audio services by AUDIOTEK. Al Gurdon was the lighting designer. ...
Designing Spider-Man
Designing Spider-Man features extensive video and photo coverage, as well as interviews with designers in all disciplines of this Broadway phenomenon....
Cirque Du Soleil Zarkana
Check out our project-in-focus on Cirque Du Soleil's Zarkana at New York's Radio City Music Hall....
Broadway's Best Of Times
We asked you, our readers, to pick your favorite Broadway designs through the years. While we took into consideration the number of nominations, we also looked closely at why you chose the shows, giving weight to your comments, as well. So here they are, your top ten from the last 40 years in chronological order....
Project In Focus: Rain: A Tribute To The Beatles
Rain: A Tribute To The Beatles, On Broadway Check out our extensive coverage of sound and lighting for this rockin' performance by Rain, The Beatles cover band playing at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where it transferred earlier this year from the Neil Simon....
Project In Focus: New World Center
A new high-tech concert venue in Miami Beach. New World Center marks a new era for classical music with the inauguration of the institution's first purpose-built home: a new cultural landmark designed by Frank Gehry with built-in projection surfaces and coolux media server system...
Roger Waters' The Wall Tour
With a design team that includes production designer Mark Fisher, lighting designer Marc Brickman, and creative director Sean Evans, Roger Waters' The Wall 30th anniversary tour set is a facsimile of the 1980 version, with a bit more projection this time around....
Belasco Theatre: Historic Renovation On Broadway
One of Broadway's classic theatres, the Belasco, originally opened in 1907 as the Stuyvesant Theatre. The marquee, lobby, and auditorium have been renovated by The Shubert Organization...
Jay-Z/Eminem: Detroit to New York
Plots, images, and renderings of the Jay-Z and Eminem concerts in September in Detroit at Comerica Park and in New York at Yankee Stadium (All Photos: Roger Staub of Infect Productions)....
Tours De Force: The Top Ten Concert Tour Designs Of All Time
Live Design's look at the best concert tour designs of all time. These were the most popular choices for their combined aesthetic and technically groundbreaking value...
The Essence Music Festival
The Essence Music Festival is a three-day concert and cultural seminar series produced by Rehage Entertainment.Inc, and held in the Louisiana Superdome and Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. It is the largest African-American music and empowerment event in the country; and the 2010 Festival featured top performers such as Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys and Earth Wind and Fire...
Designing Vancouver 2010
Live Design's coverage of the design of the 2010 winter Olympics and past Olympics coverage...
