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Sep 07, 2010 |
 | | The cover of Exit Press' inaugural volume, Ten Plays, by Mark Jackson. |
SAN FRANCISCO-Ten Plays is the first publication by
Exit Press, the new publishing arm of Exit Theatre, San Francisco's stalwart producer of new and
classic experimental theatre since 1983. Ten
Plays is the first published volume of plays by award-winning playwright,
director and performer, Mark Jackson.
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Sep 07, 2010 |
 | | The touring production of In the Heights will factor into several theatres plans to let students experience touring Broadway as a form of artistic expression and as an educational tool. |
NEW YORK-The
Broadway League has announced the recipients of its 15th annual
National Education Grants. These grants support innovative programs that enable
students from coast to coast to experience touring Broadway as a form of
artistic expression and as an educational tool. The 2010 National Education
Grants program bestows $5,000 to 10 presenters of touring Broadway shows across
the U.S.
for the development or support of education programs associated with touring
productions.
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Sep 07, 2010 |
 | | Rigging situations like this one are dangerous for the operators and the people onstage. That's what J. R. Clancy hopes to bring to theatre managers' attention by posting photos of bad rigging on its Facebook page. To see more, visit www.facebook.com/JRClancy . |
SYRACUSE,
NY-J.R. Clancy has begun a new
feature on their Facebook page where each week, they post a new photo of a
rigging accident-waiting-to-happen at http://www.facebook.com/JRClancy. These
photos are meant to stand as vivid examples of amateur errors, often involving
hardware that was never meant to bear weight.
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Sep 07, 2010 |
 | | Aviom's Pro16 personal mixing system with its A-16II personal mixers is in the orchestra pit on Broadway's Promises Promises |
NEW YORK-Aviom's Pro16 personal mixing system is
increasingly a big part of a big show on Broadway, where it is being used as
part of the monitoring setup by three of the season's hottest musicals - Promises, Promises; Come Fly Away; and La
Cage aux Folles - to help the orchestra to stay on cue.
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Sep 07, 2010 |
 | | The new Clay Paky Sharpy 170W moving light |
LONDON-Italian lighting
manufacturer Clay Paky is moving north this fall, debuting severl new products
at the PLASA show in London.
New gear includes the Alpha Profile 700, a 700-watt automated lighting fixture;
the Shotlight Wash, a projector that combines a 1500W discharge lamp and a
3000W Xenon strobe function; Sharpy, a 170W lamp beam moving light designed to
offer unprecedented brightness as well as the Mirage QC and Dyna-Cue-Creator.
Full details after the jump.
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Sep 07, 2010 |
 | | The Midiator Vision Pro, a visual show control device. |
DELFT, the Netherlands-Midiator
is set to release their Vision Pro, visual show control device during PLASA.
Midiator's founder Menno Pleij and James Heron of media-server manufacturer
Green Hippo will show the first ever third-party integration of the proprietary
HippoNet protocol. The Vision Pro console is designed to integrate with media-servers,
lighting consoles and other show devices to enable the user to create
higher-quality live shows easier than before.
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Sep 07, 2010 |
 | | The new W-DMX BlackBox F-2500 |
UDDEVALLA, Sweden-Wireless
Solution Sweden AB will debut the latest addition to the award-winning W-DMX
line, the BlackBox F-2500, during PLASA 2010. The W-DMX BlackBox F-2500 is a
multiple universe unit that can act as two transmitters, two receivers and one
repeater. It also supports the dual bands 2.45GHz and 5.8GHz as standard. It
also carries patent technology for adaptive frequency hopping, error correction,
and high fidelity.
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Sep 07, 2010 |
NEW YORK-The Entertainment Services and Technology
Association has named the finalists in their third annual Rock Our World Awards
to be presented at the ESTA Annual Dinner & Awards Ceremony at LDI
2010. The ESTA Rock Our World Awards
were created to honor groundbreaking achievement by its members and to
acknowledge the genius of both the creator of the technology and the designer
or integrator who applies it in a real world environment.
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Sep 02, 2010 |
 | | The new Korg AW-2U Clip-On Ukulele Tuner |
[I know this isn't a
muso website, but this sounded like so much fun, I had to post it. Theatre
people play ukuleles too! -Jacob] MELVILLE,
NY-Korg has released the AW-2U,
an addition to its popular clip-on tuner line. Inspired by the recent upswing
of ukuleles being used in today's popular music, the new tuner provides easy
and accurate tuning for all types of ukuleles, from four-stringed soprano ukuleles
to eight-stringed baritone models. The AW-2U is designed for anyone who plays
Hawaiian ukulele music, from the beginner to the advanced player.
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Sep 02, 2010 |
 | | The new City Theatrical PDS-750 TRX power/data supply unit for Philips Color Kinetics LED fixtures |
CARLSTADT, NJ—The
new City
Theatrical PDS-750 TRX is designed to be the most advanced and most flexible
power/data supply for Philips Color Kinetics LED fixtures. The unit can be
controlled with all popular Ethernet protocols including Streaming ACN,
Art-Net, or KI Net, as well as wired and wireless DMX512, and is fully RDM
enabled. Every unit includes a built-in SHoW DMX receiver. The PDS-750 TRX
provides full control capability for the new Philips Color Kinetics ColorBlast
12 TRX, as well as 16 bit and 8 bit ColorBlast 12 TRs, iW Blast 12s, and
conventional 8 bit ColorBlast 12s, ColorBlast 6s, ColorSplash 2s, and other
CKDMX fixtures, and it can control any mix of these fixtures without wasted DMX
Slots. It was designed and developed in partnership with Philips Color Kinetics.
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; "The cover of Exit Press' inaugural volume, Ten Plays, by Mark Jackson.")
; "The touring production of In the Heights will factor into several theatres plans to let students experience touring Broadway as a form of artistic expression and as an educational tool.")
; "Rigging situations like this one are dangerous for the operators and the people onstage. That's what J. R. Clancy hopes to bring to theatre managers' attention by posting photos of bad rigging on its Facebook page. To see more, visit www.facebook.com/JRClancy .")
; "Aviom's Pro16 personal mixing system with its A-16II personal mixers is in the orchestra pit on Broadway's Promises Promises")
; "The new Clay Paky Sharpy 170W moving light")
; "The Midiator Vision Pro, a visual show control device.")
; "The new W-DMX BlackBox F-2500"){kind=small}
; "The new Korg AW-2U Clip-On Ukulele Tuner")
; "The new City Theatrical PDS-750 TRX power/data supply unit for Philips Color Kinetics LED fixtures")
