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Friday, September 03, 2010
PSW Staff 09/03/10 05:09 PM, 0 CommentsBeing located directly across the Potomac River from Washington, DC, the production crew at the Signature Theatre knew very well what it meant to operate in a crowded RF environment, and turned to wireless system solutions from Lectrosonics. With airports, radio and TV stations, the Pentagon, and countless other users of wireless frequencies all around, selecting a wireless microphone system that could readily adapt to the ever-changing frequency characteristics of the area was no small concern. Matt Rowe, Signature Theatre’s… View this story
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
PSW Staff 08/10/10 11:59 AM, 0 CommentsAn official opening by HRH Queen Elizabeth II and performances by José Carreras and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa have marked the restoration of Scarborough’s historic open air theatre. Originally built in Northstead Manor Gardens in the 1930s and officially opened by the Lord Mayor of London, Scarborough’s open air theatre is to this day the largest in Europe. At its creation, audiences flocked to see Edward German’s popular English comic opera ‘Merrie England’, the first production ever to be staged… View this story
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Monday, August 09, 2010
PSW Staff 08/09/10 08:58 AM, 0 CommentsNelson-based New Zealand PA company, BB Sound, has invested in an Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system to cater to an increase in music theatre work through the region’s newly refurbished Theatre Royal. BB Sound specializes in festival and concert live sound, purchasing an iDR-48 MixRack and iLive-T112 Control Surface from Allen & Heath’s New Zealand distributor, Jansen Professional Audio & Lighting, which debuted at the Theatre’s reopening. The Theatre Royal is the oldest working wooden theatre in the… View this story
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
PSW Staff 06/24/10 09:28 AM, 0 CommentsThe Royal Danish Theatre (Det Kongelige Teater) is presenting its fifth and largest outdoor production thus far. Alexandre Dumas’ classic The Three Musketeers story is being played out by more than 200 participating actors, singers, horses and stuntmen, all accompanied by pyrotechnics. The production is taking place in Ulvedalene, Dyrehaven, a public deer forest north of Copenhagen, situated next to a famous 1000-year-old oak tree. The show has been in the planning stage for a number of years by the… View this story
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
PSW Staff 06/22/10 10:50 AM, 0 CommentsThe Grand Lady of Market Street has been a landmark in Wilmington for nearly 140 years. Opened as the Grand Opera House in 1871, The Grand has a history of hosting operas and symphonies, vaudeville and burlesque, movies and live performances. In its early years, performers including Ethel Barrymore, Buffalo Bill Cody and John Philip Sousa graced its stage. For most of the twentieth century the 1,208-seat hall operated as a movie theater, eventually falling into disrepair and closing its… View this story
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
PSW Staff 05/26/10 03:16 PM, 0 CommentsThe Lyttleton Theatre of London’s National Theatre is one of the UK’s most prolific theatres, meaning its technical team has to cope with changing between very different productions on an almost nightly basis. However, with the help of a recently installed DiGiCo SD7 in the facility, turnarounds between productions are now just a little bit easier. “We have a connection with DiGiCo because we often use a D1 console for outdoor productions in our Theatre Square venue,” said Lyttleton Theatre… View this story
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Monday, May 17, 2010
PSW Staff 05/17/10 08:30 AM, 0 CommentsLove Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, has opened at London’s Adelphi Theatre, with cast and orchestra miked with DPA Microphones. Love Never Dies continues the story of the Phantom, moving from Paris to Phantasma, a fabulous, early 20th century showground in Coney Island, New York - home to freaks and entertainers. All 36 cast members are miked with DPA 4061s, with the principals wearing two each with dual transmitters and receivers. The 21-piece… View this story
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Friday, May 14, 2010
PSW Staff 05/14/10 11:15 AM, 0 CommentsAlbuquerque, New Mexico is home to a rich and vibrant arts scene that houses not one but three community theatres, each which present a wide range of programming. Josh Bien serves as Assistant Technical Director at the Albuquerque Little Theater, as well as Technical Director for both the Vortex and Blackout, using an arsenal of Lectrosonics equipment at all three venues. Combine these responsibilities with knowledge that Bien is also an actor and one quickly realizes that Josh is a… View this story
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
PSW Staff 04/08/10 09:08 AM, 0 CommentsThe Palace Theater originally opened in 1922 and is part of the Playhouse Square complex, an integral part of the Cleveland Theater District. The venue, which seats 2,700, accommodates a mix of shows from touring productions to concerts. Recently, the existing sound system was replaced and a new system was designed and installed by NAC Technologies under the leadership of senior audio engineer Rick Galbraith and company owner Dave Cooper. The new sound system consists of 63 NEXO S12s and… View this story
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
PSW Staff 10/22/09 01:27 PM, 0 CommentsClear-Com Communication Systems recently donated a WBS analog wireless intercom system to Sacramento’s B Street Theatre, providing the production team at the non-profit venture with an intercom solution. Clear-Com Director of Customer Satisfaction Ed Fitzgerald and Bill Blake, Managing Director for the B Street Theatre began a discussion of the venue’s need for a quality intercom communications system, and ultimately decided upon pursuing the donation of an open-boxed WBS UHF wireless intercom system. The system includes a WBS-680/A2 two-channel base… View this story
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