SUNRISE, FL – CHAUVET Professional’s new COLORado Solo Batten 4 sets the stage for seamless scenic looks at tours, festivals, churches, theatres, and other applications. A featured product at the company’s LDI booth (945), the unique 4-cell batten features seamless end-to-end RGBAW color mixing with no separation or dimmed lens corners. The fixture’s crisp looks […]
ROMEOVILLE, IL – An inscription at the entrance of Lewis University’s Philip Lynch Theatre offers a glimpse into the building’s past. It reads “Lewis Holy Name School of Aeronautics,” a testament to a time when the 250-seat thrust stage and studio theatre with a 90-seat black box space served as an aircraft hangar, part of […]
MINNEAPOLIS – Part Broadway-style stage show, and part story-driven concert, Nick Jr. Live! “Move to the Music” is all, pure 100-percent fun for the young fans who are filling venues around the country with laughter and shrieks of delight during this national tour. The lively and colorful show, which is Vstar Entertainment’s third collaboration with […]
WAREGEM, BELGIUM – Voted by the Dutch public as the “most beautiful painting in the Netherlands,” Johannes Vermeer’s 17th century masterpiece, Girl With a Pearl Earring, is renowned for its subtle use of colors, and interplay of light and shadows. These attributes made the painting (or more accurately replicas of it) an ideal prop in […]
GOUVIEUX CITY, FRANCE – Inspiration is ignited when past, present and future depart from their normal order and fuse together to form a swirling cauldron of creative ideas. Evidence of this can be seen every day at Campus Serge Kampf Les Fontaines, a XIXth Century château nestled in a wooded area 57 km north of […]
SIBIU, ROMANIA – In the second century, the Romans established Cedonia, a small settlement on the banks of the Cibin river that marked the outer reaches of their empire. They eventually left, and their small village grew into Sibiu, a cultural hub of central Europe where art and commerce thrived side by side. Today, almost […]
SYDNEY – “Genius is making complex ideas simple,” wrote Albert Einstein. The late, great physicist and passionate amateur violinist undoubtedly would have been swept away had he been around today and found himself at the Sydney Opera House on September 7 for Jacob Collier’s stunning two-hour exploration of music’s outermost boundaries. Stopping at the acclaimed […]
LONDON – On the surface at least, “My Favorite Year” and “Children of Eden” are very different shows. The Stephen Flaherty-Lynn Ahrens musical takes a farcical behind the scenes look at 1950s television, as a hapless writer tries to keep an irascible matinee idol from a bygone era out of trouble before his appearance on […]
BOCA RATON, FL – “The most effective moments in theatre are those that appeal to basic and commonplace emotions,” wrote Clayton Hamilton in his seminal “Theory of Theatre.” Although the legendary, critic, narrator and author died in 1946, six decades before the Wedding Singer debuted on Broadway, he likely would have been impressed by the […]
NICOSIA, CYPRUS – Art rides on the currents of history. At few places is the truth of this adage more evident than on Cyprus. Positioned at the crossroads between east and west, this beautiful eastern Mediterranean island has been a kaleidoscope of peoples and cultures for thousands of years. History pulsates through its 9,251 square […]
ST. LOUIS – With its hurly-burly mix of saints and sinners, Hot Box dancers and street-smart gamblers, colorful costumes and evocative settings, Guys and Dolls is as captivating today as it was when it debuted on Broadway in 1950. This was plain to see when Frank Loesser’s multi-Tony Award winning musical kicked off the 2019 […]
LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, FRANCE – Over one million visitors a year journey to Dune du Pilat. Anyone who has stood atop this 110-meter high sand dune (Europe’s tallest) and gazed out onto the Atlantic or the majestic Arcachon Basin below will find it easy to understand their motivation. Not long ago, Jean-Jacques Eroles, mayor of La […]