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Rotating Stages
Sometimes in rotating repertory, you just have to do more with more. From February 15 through November 2, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) stage...
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Caution: Robotic Technology At Work
Problem Please turn on your cell phones, and set them to vibrate. Spectators have played a part in performance since theatre began, laughing, gasping,...
The Magic Of Creating Believable Special Effects
The job of the special effects designer is to create the perception of reality in the mind of the viewer — to trick the human brain with just a few simple inputs — drops of water, say, falling from a hidden pipe, a few carefully placed lights, an offstage fan...
Burning Up With The Jonas Brothers
Disney darlings the Jonas Brothers just wrapped the second leg of the massive Burning Up tour in support of debut album, It's About Time, with additional...
I Wanna Rock Witchu
I have been eagerly anticipating Janet Jackson's Rock Witchu tour for the last year-and-a-half for two reasons: Jackson's performance and, more importantly...
Rotating Stages
Sometimes in rotating repertory, you just have to do more with more. From February 15 through November 2, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) stage...
Designing History
From the opening gavel at the Pepsi Center in Denver this past August, it was obvious this was going to be a very different Democratic Convention...
Martians Invade The Minack: War Of The Worlds in Cornwall
It was early September when the Martians came, creeping into the south of England via the Minack Theatre...
Nine Lives
What is most surprising about Roy Bennett's production and lighting design for the latest Nine Inch Nails tour the designer's fourth with the band is...
Petty Images
American music legend Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers recently concluded a summer North American tour that saw the three decades-old band rock playing...
Got A Match?
The devil is in the details is a clich, but it's true with the standards commonly used to assess the flammability of scenery: NFPA 701, Standard Methods...
Gary Hardesty’s Massive Olympic Sound System
How do you make sure an audience of 91,000 can hear what’s going on in an Olympic stadium ...
Die Soldaten: Opera In The Armory
As promised in the September issue, here is a supplemental video to accompany "War Crimes," the site-specific opera at the Lincoln Center Festival at the Park Avenue Armory....
Fully Redundant Medialon System Controlled The Olympic Opening Ceremony In Beijing
Behind the scenes at the technically challenging, visually opulent Opening Ceremony for the Summer Olympic Games at the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing on August 8, 2008 was a Medialon Manager V4 show-control system...
Last Play At Shea
Over two nights in July, Billy Joel invited a few musician friends, including Garth Brooks, Roger Daltrey, Steven Tyler, Tony Bennett, John Mellencamp,...
Going for the Gold
Five thousand years of Chinese history and culture culminated on Friday, August 8 at the opening ceremony for the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing. It's as if...
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