Stream "25 Years Of Rent: Measured In Love," a virtual celebration of the legendary Broadway musical and impact of composer/lyricist Jonathan Larson. After opening at New York Theatre Workshop, and debuting on Broadway in 1996, Rent ran thru 2008 and was directed by Michael Greif, with scenic design by Paul Clay, costume design by Angela Wendt, lighting design by Blake Burba, and sound design by Kurt Fischer. Don't miss this online event, so catch it on Thursday, March 4, 2021 or streaming thru March 6. Buy your streaming pass here.
Training & Webcasts:
• March 4 at 11am CEST (4am Eastern): Elation Coffee Break: The all-important wash light has evolved into a dynamic, multi-featured LED wash fixture that is vastly superior to wash luminaires found even just a few years ago. Join Elation’s Alistair Smyth and Frederik Afif as they take a closer look at three LED automated wash fixtures that have given lighting designers all new creative wash possibilities. Watch Here.
• March 4 @ 1pm Eastern: Ahead Of The Curve: Join host Geoffrey Platt and Vello Virkhaus from Xitelabs in a discussion about the shift from creating visual art, VJ’ing and working live in person events into the world of virtual production and extended realities. Watch Here. POSTPONED, Stay tuned for a new date!
• March 4 @ 4pm Eastern: Clubhouse: frame:work: Industry discussion led by Matthew Ward & Laura Frank.
• March 4 @ 5pm Eastern: The Comeback Project: Reopening Theatres: Lessons From Countries Who've Done It: A panel conversation featuring international theater-makers from countries in which theaters have partially or fully reopened during the pandemic. Watch Here.
• March 4 @ 6pm Pacific: Clubhouse Chat: The Covid Compliance Pivot Weekly: A weekly conversation on the Covid Compliance Officer position as well as news and updates in the industry. Listen Here.
• Live Design's Plot Lines With Jeff Croiter: Tony-Award winning lighting designer Jeff Croiter shares and discusses the plots for his award-winning work for Peter and The Starcatcher. Hosted by KOI Award-winning LD/projection designer Roma Flowers. Q&A via live Zoom. Register Here to watch on demand.
Looking Ahead Register In Advance:
• March 5 @ 11:30am Eastern: ETC Light Bytes - Programming for Film & TV: Leading industry programmers including Colin Wood (UK) and David Kane (USA). We’ll be chatting to them about their work, how they got started, thchat about working in the film and television industry as a lighting programmer. We will be chatting to them about how they started, the skills they need, their show files, tips and tricks, and so much more. Register Here.
• March 8 @ 12pm Central: Harman Learning Sessions: Planning-Communications-Compromise: Foundations For a Great Live Mix, with Michelle Pettinato: Creating the perfect audio mix for your live show starts long before you touch the console. It’s often a result of meticulous planning, good communication and sometimes compromise. In this webinar, Michelle shares her strategies for success. Register Here.
• March 8 @ 8pm Eastern: New York City Vectorworks Entertainment User Group: Data Management and Cable Tools presented by Bryan Seigel, Vectorworks trainer. Join via Zoom. For additional info: email to the user group leaders Diana Kesselschmidt at [email protected], Kevin Lee Allen at [email protected] or Steve Backo at [email protected].
• March 10 @ 2pm Eastern: Bill Sapsis Free Remote Training: Ground Support Truss Systems. We'll talk with special guest Elmer Veith about the do’s & don’ts on choosing and setting up ground support rigs. Register Here as of Friday, March 5.
• March 11 at 10am Eastern: Green Hippo: Design, Prepare, Deliver with Hippotizer; V4.6 New Feature Introduction: An overview of the soon-to-be-released Hippotizer V4.6 software, introducing a whole new way to design, prepare, and deliver, with the award-winning Media Server range. The latest feature release from Hippotizer is the next step in collaborative video design, production, and content delivery. Register Here.
Conferences & Special Events:
• Women In Lighting: Global Gathering: An online event to celebrate International Women’s Day, the second anniversary of the Women In Lighting (WIL) Project, and to connect our growing network and community together. All are welcome. It features a selection of sessions themed as follows: Inspiration, Project, Action and Social. Info Here. March 4 is the last day to regsister.
• March 8-12: USITT21—Virtually Anywhere. USITT's 61st annual conference and stage expo goes 100% digital. Information and Registration Here.
• April 6-8: New World Rigging Symposium (NWRS): Produced online by ESTA and USITT. Register Here.
Webcasts & Podcasts On Demand:
• Artistic Finance Podcast: Taxes With Cory Pattak: This new episode features lighting designers Cory Pattak and Ethan Steimel discuss how to organize and itemize receipts for tax time. They go line by line through the actual list of itemized categories on their taxes. Once they make it through the 25 items, you can see it isn't as complicated as it seems. Listen Here.
• Making Theatre: Episode 18, All Things Props With Lizzie Frankl: A chat with props supervisor and director of Propworks, who clearly loves her job and the people she works with. We learn that research, organization and creativity is key, the feel of a prop can be as important as its look, and that it is vital to have a fascination for detail. Listen Here.
• in 1: the podcast episode #104 Quarantine Happy Hour #8-UK Edition: Hopping over the Atlantic to chat with some amazing designers based in the UK. Before that, however, Howell Binkley’s long-time associates Ryan O’Gara and Amanda Zieve join us to talk about the newly created fellowship in Howell’s name and the upcoming March 1 deadline to apply. Then it’s on to the roundtable with lighting designer Tim Deiling, scenic & costume designer David Farley, lighting designer Lucy Carter, scenic designer Chiara Stephenson, and scenic designer Andrew Edwards. Hosted by Cory Pattak. Listen Here.
• ETC Study Hall: Steve Terry chats with Dave Cunningham on the details of developing the ETC Source Four:
• Light Talk With The Lumen Brothers, Episode 203: Virtual Avatars Navigating Hopelessly Through Digital Landscapes: Join Lumen Brothers Stan and David (and Sistah, yours truly) as they pontificate about: Steve and his family escaping the snow; Winter in St. Barts; Letters to Light Talk Central; The Weeknd, revisited; Deep in the end zone; Stan's "good eye"; Zoom vs. face to face learning; Challenges and organization for LDI 2021; Design approaches for devised productions; "Heat 'em Up Aerosol Body Spray", Serving lighting artists and students with disabilities; How lighting manufacturers may approach a post pandemic world; and How yesterday's wonders give way to tomorrow's wizardry. Listen Here.
• GLP: 10 Out Of 10: Manny Treeson of NYX Design: Manny has worked with ESPN, NBC, the Disney Channel, RSA, Amazon Web Services, Yahoo, Honda and Microsoft as well as film premieres such as Star Wars The Force Awakens. Watch Here.
• USITT: No More 10 Out of 12's- Why It's Time for Change: A discussion about the move for changing the traditional rehearsal known as the 10 of 12. Sound designer Lindsay Jones, scenic designer Regina Garcia, actor Rachel Spencer Hewitt, and stage manager Lisa Dawn Cave participate in this discussion. Watch Here.
• Tony Award-winning lighting designer Ken Billington, guest on the Artistic Finance podcast, discusses how he has managed his personal finances during more than sixty years of designing on Broadway and running a design studio. With over 100 Broadway shows to his credit, not to mention a slew of other shows from Las Vegas to SeaWorld and beyond. He has been nominated for nine Tony Awards for Best Lighting Design, and won for the musical Chicago. Thanks to Ethan Steimel for this interview with one of my favorite LDs. Listen Here.
• Featured podcast: Changing The Landscape: In 2020, a group of theatre designers, directors, actors, managers, and technicians, produced an open letter titled ‘We See You White American Theatre," and laid it square in the public eye. The letter detailed the many transgressions accumulated toward theatre-makers identifying as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, by the predominantly white American theatre in the United States, and has reverberated through management structures, teaching institutions and theatre producing organizations at all levels prompting a new, thorough, unavoidable level of public conversation and accountability. Joining host Alan Edwards to discuss these topics: Award-winning scenic & costume designer and activist Clint Ramos; assistant dean and assistant professor adjunct in Theater Management for Yale School of Drama and general manager of Yale Repertory Theatre Kelvin Dinkins, Jr; and managing director of the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts at Northwestern University Al Heartley. Listen Here.
