NASHVILLE – Things can be said in colors and shapes that cannot be said any other way, the great Georgia O’Keeffe once observed. The creative team at The Playground summoned the power of this mysterious visual language for Megan Thee Stallion on her Hot Girl Summer tour. Wanting to share the story of her creative […]

NEWARK – With its iconic bandshell set against the majestic backdrop of its namesake hills, the more-than-a-century-old Hollywood Bowl casts a uniquely captivating spell. It’s easy to see why Rolling Stone named the legendary amphitheater, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, one of the USA’s ten best live music venues. Replicating this […]

NEW YORK – “The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.” William Faulker said this when accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature. Playwright Max Wolf Friedlich explores two such hearts in the play “Job,” which recently made its Broadway debut at The Helen Hayes Theatre after a critically acclaimed […]

Things can be said in colors and shapes that cannot be said any other way, the great Georgia O’Keeffe once observed. The creative team at The Playground summoned the power of this mysterious visual language for Megan Thee Stallion on her recent Hot Girl Summer tour. Wanting to share the story of her creative and […]

‘We’ve got the basic thing the kids want — they want to rock, and that’s it.” AC/DC guitarist Angus Young told an interviewer not long after the band started. He was right, but only partly.  It’s not just “kids,” but fans of all ages, who love being jolted by the band’s straight forward scorched earth […]

This Boston based designer has enriched an eclectic mix of projects with light during the course of his highly successful career, from product launches by Fortune 500 companies, to museum exhibits and television broadcasts, to tours by the likes of Alicia Keys, Cardi B, Lenny Kravitz and Gwen Stefani. Despite the varied nature of these […]

Music memories are often made at 628 Divisadero Street in San Francisco. It’s been that way since the 1960s, when the address was home to the Half Note Club, which  hosted shows by jazz legends like Miles Davis  and Thelonious Monk. In the 1990s, 628 Divisadero Street was silent for a few years. But music […]

LONDON – Light24 (Light Expo, London) is built around the slogan Step Into The Light.  This concept has been enthusiastically embraced by Chauvet and its family of brands, as the company will be at the expo to showcase a wide range of solutions that will not only invite visitors to step into the light, but also create and […]

NASHVILLE – When lighting designer Rodger Pugh, his co-designer Craig Richter ,and production manager Joey Dileo began working on the lighting for Halestorm’s current tour, they collectively developed a clear vision for the show’s final design. Through this collaboration, they came up with a concept that was “somewhere between “an “80s rock show and a […]

NASHVILLE – Back in the 1930’s, a newspaper reporter asked the well-known bank robber, Willie Sutton why he robbed banks. Sutton was said to have replied, “because that’s where the money is.” Matthieu Larivee and the team at Luz Studio had no such nefarious purpose in mind when they designed Jason Aldean’s 24-city Highway Desperado […]

PISCATAWAY, NJ – Rutgers’ school colors are scarlet, gray, and black. But for the Friday night football game against Washington on September 27, the university asked students and fans to dress in all black when they entered SHI Stadium. The football team itself donned all black uniforms for the game. No, this wasn’t a night […]

Czaplinek, Poland – British poet John Ruskin once declared ‘you get what you pay for.’ Although his quip has been repeated often over the past two centuries, it isn’t always true. A beautiful case in point is Pol’and’Rock, a three-day event held at the Czaplinek-Broczyno Airfield that bills itself as “the largest free festival in Europe.” Inspired […]