October 1, 2008
Features
How Do You Teach Magic?
Since the last education issue in October 2007, a lot has happened within the field of projection design . We've been added to the designers' union, United...
Designing Women
Madeleine Bernatchez SCENIC DESIGN Madeleine is a gifted designer, conceptual artist, and director. She is highly skilled in all media associated with...
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...
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...
Embers Only
Located in the heart of the historic Colony District of Anaheim and opened this past June, Club Ember is a dazzling homage to 1930s glamour conjured out...
The Village People
This year, one of Giacomo Puccini's earliest, lesser-known operas, Edgar, was performed for the first time ever at the Puccini Festival, the annual summer...
Idols Of Imagery
Behind the glitzy facades of Las Vegas hotels, where a million megawatts of electricity illuminate the night, nightclubs have discovered that video is...
Homeless In The American Theatre
Even as housing prices plummet, homes remain beyond reach for too many theatres. Under-funded and struggling to survive, young theatres, and a growing...
Go
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...
Five Questions For Dave Tosti-Lane, Sound Designer & Educator
You are a sound design professor at Cornish College for the Arts in Seattle. How does sound design fit into the overall design program there? We're a...
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...
Who's Doing What
Seattle Opera celebrates general director Speight Jenkins' 25th anniversary season with a new production of Strauss' Elektra in repertory October 18 to...
Envision
Working For A Living
There's no getting around it: designing for a living is not an easy way to make a career. There's a lot of personal sacrifice involved, and unless you're...
Great Acoustic Expectations
Acoustic design for large performance spaces has come a long way. Concert halls and opera houses are being planned or built in Orlando, Las Vegas (really!),...
A Mighty Wind (Load)
How strong should a temporary structure be made to withstand winds that may be encountered during its brief lifespan? The answer is less definitive than...
Build
When Direction Responds To Design
Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman unfolds in an interrogation room where a writer is investigated because the plots of his gruesome stories resemble...
Tech
Tech Review: iPhone Apps We Love
When Apple released the iPhone last year, it was hard to deny that this little piece of technology would be a game changer. It's sleek yet sophisticated...
Product of the Month: Selecon Rua Medium Throw Followspot
The Rua Medium Throw Followspot, part of Selecon's Performer Series of followspots, takes full advantage of the Philips Quick Fit mini MSR lamp for variable...
LDI New Products
Additional new products being shown at LDI will be featured in the November issue of Live Design as well as in the LDI Show Daily at www.livedesignonline.com....
Tech Review: Consoles Take Center Stage
Maybe it's the economy or simply a growing demand for smaller footprint boards that consume fewer of those profitable seats in prime main floor spots,...
Phone (And Job) Apps
Another year, another LDI. In fact, I have a feeling I say this same thing every year. I guess I have redundancy issues. But this is no ordinary LDI hmmm,...
Letters to the Editor
September Gold Congratulations on your incredible story on the opening ceremoniesWe were blown away and also dying to know how everything was done. Such...
Bungees For Woyzeck
Never one to shrink from technically challenging productions, executive producer Joe Melillo has brought Gsli rn Gardarsson's Icelandic production of...
