This season, Diana Kesselschmidt has transformed the Winter Village ice rink at Bryant Park into a setting full of charm. With a vibrant and colorful lighting design, she has turned this popular 1,580-square-meter rink into a luminous gem that can be admired even from the skyscrapers surrounding the park.
On his current Cronicles tour, the German rapper Cro has not only been looking back on his musical history, but also taking a look into the future. None other than Roland Greil designed the lighting for the show – and in so doing, gave GLP’s brand new LED FatBeam fixture, MAD MAXX, its tour premiere.
Nashville – well known as a vibrant and major hub for the production and live entertainment industry – staged its own superlative concert – Jack Daniel’s New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash – at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park to celebrate the new year rollover.
It is said that the creative drive has no reverse gear. Although building on what has been done in the past and echoing themes, it never repeats itself, but instead is constantly looking forward, rejuvenating itself with original ideas at every turn.
When the highly anticipated stage version of the blockbuster film The Devil Wears Prada debuted in Chicago in the summer of 2022, it was to mixed reviews. By the time it arrived in London’s West End at the end of 2024 it was with an entirely fresh production, including a new creative team and an original score from Elton John.
Magic, they say, is built on defying perception. How true! Especially in Las Vegas, the desert oasis that has been known to bend reality in unimaginable directions.
"I am still there in my heart and soul!" A fan posted this on social media in mid-May about the Deadmau5 Retro5pective show in Brooklyn. Never mind that the concert took place there some three weeks earlier.
Lighting design group Lightswitch, and production house Upstaging, collaborated on a new holiday lighting experience at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The founders of the Eden Project took on the challenge of transforming an abandoned clay pit into a series of geodesic domes that showcase and celebrate the rich diversity of nature through their biomes.
The second series of The Masked Singer SA was one of the most successful music TV shows of 2024, broadcast on SABC, and featuring an outstanding production lighting design created by two of the country’s most talented LDs, Ryan Lombard and Joshua Cutts, based around the core components of 150 Robe moving lights.
