Sometimes chance encounters turn into lifelong friendships and so it was for a young Jeff Ravitz. In the late ‘70s he was working with the Chicago band Styx and they had a show in Madison’s Civic Center. While he was setting up his front of house consoles—a standard two-scene preset linked to a...
I first met Bob Johnston in North America’s largest indoor rehearsal room—an Air Canada aircraft hangar where the Rolling Stones were rehearsing the 1989 Steel Wheels tour. I was working at TMB then and somehow we had sold the band on a set of enormous, nine-cell, color-changing fixtures, each...
One of the things that every touring company deals with is fitting a show into different venues, whether they have fewer fixtures than you’re used to or the stage is smaller. For international tours, you’re also faced with different electrical requirements and approaches to work.
The residents of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul offset their harsh winters with a vibrant year-round arts scene. The great twentieth-century industrialists who made their fortunes in flour, cattle and steel were also noted philanthropists whose legacy survives today in the many...
You can’t talk about the history of dance in the United States without focusing on the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. It made its first stamp on history in 1958 when Alvin Ailey and a group of African-American dancers put on a tide-changing performance in New York City. In the nearly six...
Whether they’re in the classroom or at the Maker Faire, Technical Artisans Collective makes it their business to teach NYC schoolkids about theater technology.
Feast your eyes on these awesome photos from the latest Festifeel event held at London’s House of Vans!
The artist Gila Abutalebi is recognised for her Transparente Lyrik (transparent poetry) creations – revolutionary works of multi-dimensional art dedicated to letters of the alphabet. Gila had long searched for the perfect lighting to illuminate her unique designs, but it wasn’t until she met with...
