Stage Directions

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) production of Romeo and Juliet played in Stratford-upon-Avon through this past September. In this behind the scenes, time-lapse video, you can watch the set being built for Romeo and Juliet in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. {youtube}v=2ZJ8dlVsiOM{/youtube}

CHAUVET Professional has entered into an agreement with the Davenport Theatre to create a product demo and education center in Manhattan. The company will be using the theater, which is outfitted completely with CHAUVET Professional fixtures, to conduct educational events as well as product demos and training sessions. 

Robe presented Part Two of its Lost Worlds exhibition live show trilogy concept at LDI in Las Vegas, with a booth design that supported its high-energy eight-minute live dance extravaganza designed to illustrate its latest technologies in the context for which they have been developed. This included the just-launched T1 Profile LED moving light. For those of you who couldn't make it to LDI, or want to see it again, here's the video of the Lost Worlds live show:  {youtube}v=TEyI3WGBhEg{/youtube}

ESTA and USITT announce the initial sponsors for the 2019 New World Rigging Symposium, taking place March 19-20, 2019 in conjunction with the USITT Conference and Stage Expo 2019 in Louisville, KY. The New World Rigging Symposium offers riggers and those with a vested interest in rigging a unique opportunity to explore the complex issues and demands placed on today’s rigging industry. The 2-day symposium will include sessions on a variety of technical and workplace related topics and will carry ETCP education renewal credits for re-certification.

SpotTrack, the specialist entertainment software tool for making, modifying and maintaining followspot cue sheets, is now supporting  new charities: Backup – The Technical Entertainment Charity and Behind the Scenes.

Show Sage LLC, North American Premium Partner and master distributor of Dataton’s award-winning multi-display presentation products, announced that they have been appointed a strategic partner of Barco Inc. for distribution of Medialon® show control products in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean.

Elation Professional announces the addition of Erich Meitzner to the Elation team as the company’s new Regional Sales Representative for Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

Ancient Athens may be separated from modern Venice Beach, CA by 6,900 miles and 2,400 hundred years, give or take a century or two, but that didn’t stop these two very divergent places from melding together on stage in the Jeff Lynne, John Farrar Tony-nominated musical comedy Xanadu. Inspired by the 1980 film of the same name, the show brings together a forlorn SoCal street artist with a group of perky Greek muses. The result is a rollicking adventure, culminating in the nonstop swirl of a disco roller rink that has left audiences laughing around the world since its Broadway debut 11 years ago.

Three teams of lighting programmers battled at the Hog 4 console in High End Systems’ annual Hog Factor USA Collegiate Competition at LDI 2018, with team Sola Tartan from Carnegie Mellon University winning first place. The action took place live on Friday, Oct. 19 in the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Flying under the banner Connect, the 145th International Convention of the AES held in New York (October 17-20, 2018) delivered plenty in the way of connection — not just in terms of audio, but also by providing a cast of industry notables including Thomas Dolby, Bob McCarthy, John Storyk, John Meyer, George Massenburg, Steve Remote, and Dave Natale. Here is a report from our sister publication, Front of House magazine, written by FOH Contributing Writer, Steve LaCerra.