BOLOGNA, ITALY – After 60 million album sales and a slew of platinum and gold hits, frontman Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull still have a burning desire to push musical boundaries. This fiery passion and hunger were on full display on March 30, when the British rock pioneers took the stage at Bologna’s Teatro EuropAuditorium. […]
DOVER, MA – When a lighting and scenic designer moves into a small town, local theatre groups are bound to notice. That’s what happened about 20 years ago, when Len Schnabel, the owner of DesignLight, and his family settled in Dover, a picturesque village about 15 miles southwest of Boston on the banks of the […]
NORTH BETHESDA, MD – Founded in 1789, Georgetown Prep is one of the oldest preparatory schools in the US. The halls of its leafy campus outside Washington DC resonate with tradition, as Erik Morra discovered when he signed on to light a show at the school’s student theatre in February. However, one of the main […]
SUNRISE, FL USA – CHAUVET Professional’s Ovation line of LED ellipsoidal, Fresnel and batten fixtures have earned widespread praise since their introduction a few years ago, impressing lighting designers from London’s West End, to regional theatres in Australia and across the US. Now the company has expanded the groundbreaking stage lighting series by introducing a […]
BOCA RATON, FL – “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again,” C.S. Lewis once wrote. The English author went on to prove that point with his famed “children’s book” The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Woven like some magical garment, the book envelops the imagination, captivating readers of […]
LOUISVILLE – CHAUVET Professional’s Ovation line of LED ellipsoidal, Fresnel and batten fixtures have earned widespread praise since their introduction a few years ago, impressing lighting designers from London’s West End, to regional theatres in Australia and across the US. Now the company has expanded the groundbreaking stage lighting series by introducing a collection of […]
NOTTINGHAM, UK – The team at OneBigStar was already very familiar with the CHAUVET Professional Ovation series when they made a major investment in the LED fixtures. “We’ve built the Chauvet trade show booths for years, so we’ve worked with Ovation units before and have been very impressed,” said Steve Yeardsley, Managing Director of the […]
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – The true story of Les Misérables takes place more in that mystifying and kinetic space that exists between people than it does in any time or location. It is by opening a window into this web of emotional forces that connects us that this sung-through musical based on Victor Hugo’s 19th century […]
WASHINGTON – On most nights, the Birchmere welcomes musicians to its stage, some legendary like Ray Charles and B.B. King, others up-and-coming newcomers. But once a year since 2009, the iconic live music venue turns its attention to dance, when it hosts the annual Ravens Night theatrical belly dance revue. For house LD David Beebe, […]
NEW YORK – Why do chameleons change colors? Technically it has something to do with things called nanocrystals in their cell structure. But a more wondrous and soul-stirring explanation can be found in one of the many African fables that come vividly to life in Tinga Tinga Tales – The Musical. A scene in the […]
BOURNEMOUTH, UK – Based on the Ian Fleming novel of the same name, the 1968 musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was an instant cinema hit worldwide. As much as Roald Dahl’s ingenious screenplay and Dick Van Dyke’s brilliant on-screen performance may have added to the film’s credibility, it’s ultimately the film’s central protagonist – […]
BARRANQUILLA, COLOMBIA – With 12,248 students and 656 full-time professors, the University of Atlántico is the largest higher education institution in Columbia. As part of a recent move to transform the University’s multipurpose auditorium into a full-fledged theatre for its students, local AV specialists Schallertech provided a versatile lighting arrangement, specifying a number of CHAUVET […]