Marshall Bissett grew up in Central Scotland and studied theater direction at the Old Vic Theatre School. He worked on the original productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and toured with such acts as Chicago, Neil Diamond, and The Rolling Stones. In 1983 he founded TMB, a worldwide supplier of lighting equipment. He’s kept his hand in directing, which in retirement now vies for his time along with freelance writing and fly-fishing.
Lighting designer Natasha Katz added to her impressive resume in the last Broadway season with two Tony Award-nominated lighting designs; one for the quasi-horror play Grey House and another for the musical Hell’s Kitchen based around Alicia Keys’ music.
For Brooklyn-based and five-time Tony-nominated lighting designer Japhy Weideman, it’s all about the angles.
What comes to mind when you picture the rigging from your high school theatre experience? A few overhead pipes tied off to wall-mounted cleats? If that is your memory, then you are not a graduate of the Utah school system.
Greece has been the target of invaders since around 3000 BCE. In a modern and more welcome invasion, ETC fixtures and control have recently taken that country’s television and live events industry by storm.
There is much we don’t know about Mars but thanks to a creative design team, we have a good idea what a Mars rover looks like on the Red Planet. Luckily you don’t have to make the 140-million-mile journey, (roughly 40 years by car at 100 MPH if you could drive). Using an ETC Unison Mosaic system, ...
ETC Workshop 2024 gave extra value with the creation of dealer excellence awards in a variety of categories. Corey Cascio, Field Project Coordinator for ETC Germany put forward Sonus Exsertus for their work on the Lithuania Symphony Orchestra congress Hall and National Drama Theatre (Main hall) in...
“I started Preston Productions with an ETC Ion, a few thousand dollars and a credit card,” Justin Preston says when we meet with him in the unlikely setting of downtown Los Angeles.
Life can be tough for aquarium-bound fish. Their days are spent patrolling the confines of their tank, staring back at the young faces pressed against their glass walls. On the upside, there is companionship, regular meals, and freedom from predators. For the denizens of the Suzanne and Walter...
Pink Floyd could never be accused of half-hearted productions. In the mid-seventies when their contemporaries were still using carousel projectors, they created a 32-foot-diameter circular screen lit by two 10,000-watt Xenon 35 mm projectors with custom lenses ground in France. When other bands...
The word “iconic” is often used to describe the natural amphitheater in the grounds of Stanford University. Joan Baez, The Grateful Dead and Crosby Stills and Nash are a small sampling of the seminal acts of the ‘60s who performed on what some call “that hallowed stage.” Opened in 1937, Frost...
