September 1, 2008
Features
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...
Panic Room
Marguerite, a new musical inspired by the Dumas novel, La Dame Aux Camlias, debuted at London's Theatre Royal Haymarket to rave reviews in May. Although...
War Crimes
When I walked into the Drill Hall at the Park Avenue Armory, a cavernous military hall-cum-gallery and performance space that once served as the headquarters...
Viva Italia
For gourmets worldwide, Emilia Romagna is an Italian region synonymous with Bologna, Parma ham, and Lambrusco wine, but for Italian rock fans, it's the...
American Dreams
Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, is celebrating the Year of a Million Dreams in 2008. Appropriately, the audio and lighting engineers at EPCOT's...
Go
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,...
Five Questions for Mark Engel, President/CEO, Rosco
You have just been named President/CEO of Rosco Laboratories. How long have you been with the company, and what positions have you held to date? I joined...
NASDAQ's New Marketsite Video Wall
The iconic NASDAQ MarketSite video wall that sits in the NASDAQ broadcast studio in New York City's Times Square recently got an overhaul with an entire...
Technologies For Houses Of Worship At LDI
As houses of worship of all denominations continue to embrace the fundamentals of audio, lighting, and video technology, and some large facilities are...
Hard Core Fun At Hard Rock Park
Set on 55 acres in Myrtle Beach, SC, the new Hard Rock Park theme park officially opened with a performance by the Eagles in early June...
Envision
Searching For The Perfect Wave: A Life Recording Sound Effects
Once upon a time, I was involved in a small and vastly underfunded theatre company's production of a play by one of the world's greatest living playwrights....
Q&A With Dave Korins
Given the pace he maintained in the 2007-2008 theatre season, set designer David Korins earned a summer off. Off and on Broadway, he designed the musical...
Build
How I Did That: Disappearing Numbers
Back in 2004, I designed my first show for Simon McBurney's company Complicite at London's National Theatre. It was an adaptation of Shakespeare's Measure...
Problem/Solution: Naked City
Problem No curtain. No scenery. So begins Our Town. When director David Cromer began work on the show for the Hypocrites Theatre Company in Chicago, he...
Tech
Tech: Our House
In The Beginning The present building of London's Royal Opera House is the third theatre on the Covent Garden site, since the original one burned down...
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...
POM: Fisher Technical Services Navigator Automation System
Over the past decade, automation has gradually been shifting from something that scene shops and rigging companies do in-house as part of their construction...
Product News
Additional new products being shown at LDI will be featured in the October issue of Live Design as well as in the LDI Show Daily at www.livedesignonline.com....
Loadout: Water Molecube At The Olympics
Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps was the darling of the 2008 Summer Games as he knocked down world records like bowling pins and won eight gold medals at...
