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 we’re featuring next.

Super Bowl Halftime Show 2012

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, with 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...

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