While most new lighting products come from R&D labs backed by industry giants, Candle & Switch is bucking the norm by developing apps and...

A smarter, safer alternative to counterweight rigging for high schools and regional theatres The CounterM.A.T.E.’s terminationless...

Imagine you walk into a venue to set up for a show, and you look for the normal 400-amp 3-phase company switch to power your lighting...

In the last few years, entertainment lighting manufacturers have introduced several automated lights with an LED laser source, like the...

How the 2025 GRAMMY Awards Broadcast Came Together The interior of Crypto.com Arena, where the GRAMMYs were held this year. The Cohesion...

Here's a selected look at some of the new products to be seen on the show floor at NAMM 2025, held in Anaheim, California last month:...

The LDI Show racked up another robust edition, December 6 - 8 in Las Vegas. Once again, there was a fair amount of grumbling on the show...

You have a lighting plot and a scale drawing, but limited time to hang it. Why not make a truss tape or pipe tape? It makes sense to have...

Battery chemistry matters. This diagram illustrates the basic structure and operation of a lithium-ion battery during charging and...

SetPet takes media server technology to the next level Although it's early in their careers, John Horzen and Christian Killada are...

The Claypaky Rhapsodya LED profile spot moving-yoke fixture is designed for theatre, television, and other markets. Claypaky’s Rhapsodya...

Shadow, Light, and Truth THE FIRST LED STAGE LIGHTS that I can recall were some LED PARs that Color Kinetics showed at LDI around 1997....

The SolaPix Fan 8 blurs the lines between a moving yoke fixture, an effects light, and a color wash with tunable white light. There is no...

A 40-year-old company’s overnight success story ACME Lighting might be the oldest entertainment lighting company you’ve never heard...

If you rented any gear in the US after September 3, 2023, and wondered why it was caked with mud even more so than usual, then there is a...

If you were at LDI 2023, no doubt you saw and/or heard about the Martin MAC One. It created a bit of a buzz. Martin has been building MAC...

Hearing protection is an investment in your health THE FIRST BIG ROCK CONCERT I ever attended was an REO Speedwagon show, and it was...

Martin Lighting opens a cutting-edge manufacturing facility in Pécs, Hungary The entertainment lighting industry thrives on innovation,...

Book of the Month: Stage Rigging Handbook, Fourth Edition It lives! The newest edition of Jay Glerum’s indispensable classic Stage...

With NFC, you don’t have to shout Whatever you think about robots, you can’t say you weren’t warned. Anyone who ever saw The Jetsons, the...