MIAMI – Long before the first Ultra Music fans began filing into downtown’s Bayfront Park this March, the festival had already begun playing itself out in the mind of Patrick Dierson. “We started working on the pre-production process, several months out in advance and went over things again and again to get this right,” said […]

DIJON, FRANCE – Creativity cannot be used up, wrote the iconic Maya Angelou. The more you use, the more it grows. To that, we might add, “the more it is shared, the brighter it shines.” This empowering concept is at the heart of Showlight, and it is why CHAUVET Professional and its sister company, ChamSys, […]

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL – JJ Grey had one bit of advice for the artists who joined him and his band Mofro for their two-day festival, “The Blackwater Sol Revival,” which kicked off May 24. “Don’t stand on the side of the stage because I’m going to put you on the spot.” The legendary artist was […]

NAPLES, FL – On its website, the Gulfshore Playhouse declares that it is “passionately committed to enriching the cultural landscape of our region by producing professional theatre to the highest artistic standards.” Over the course of a season, the 368-seat main Moran theatre (part of a new 40,243 sq. ft. complex) fulfills this mission in […]

Rapperswil, Switzerland – Mottos are quite easy to make up, but living up to their grandiose claims? Well…that’s often another story, unless you are talking about Circus Knie 2025. This year, the iconic circus presented itself as offering “a mixture of fantasy, poetry and magic.” An idle claim? Hardly. All three of these wonderful qualities […]

DALLAS – The stage was big, over 200-feet wide and 100-feet long. So too was the venue, the 510,000 sq. ft. Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, TX, the practice facility of the Dallas Cowboys. Good thing too… because the Academy of Country Music Awards went all out this May to celebrate its 60th […]

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Life begins again with summer, wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps that is why everything seems possible during this season of long nights and sunny days, especially to the young. Memories of those summer dreams continue to burn brightly in our hearts even after they have been dimmed by time, as they […]

PARIS – Space is the breath of art, Frank Lloyd Wright once observed before he went on to revolutionize architecture with his open, elemental designs. This philosophy is compatible with the approach that Etienne de Crécy follows with his art. Like Wright who pioneered new ideas in building design, the Lyon-born electronic music maestro has […]

True to the mission of this column, this legendary designer shared five of the lessons he’s learned about lighting along the way in his career. And oh, what a career it has been! Morse’s close collaboration with Madonna and her set designer Bruce Rogers on the Drowned World tour in 2001 resulted in a seminal […]

If you were an astronaut looking back on planet earth from your spacecraft, the mystical, glorious, and humbling image that held you in awe would be dominated by two colors: the foundational blue of the seas that cover over 70-percent of earth, and the delicate white of the clouds that drift over those waters. There […]

Don’t use more than two colors on stage at the same time. This rule is about as axiomatic as “always pack an extra pair of socks when you travel.” Virtually every lighting designer follows it. Luke Edwards routinely does too… at least most of the time! The owner of Bear Bright Studios, Edwards believes that, […]

INDIO, CA – Coachella has always been about stepping into transformative spaces. And over at the iconic Yuma tent it’s clear what that magical zone is all about – an urban EDM nightclub. Forget that you’re in the middle of a desert, step inside this tent and it’s easy to feel like you entered a […]