West End stars unite for an online concert of Gatsby–A Musical, filmed at London's historic Cadogan Hall. Following sell-out live success and an Offie nomination for Best New Musical, this captivating, socially-distanced revival's creative team includes designer Justin Williams, lighting designer Dom Warwick, and costume supervisor Belle Mundi. Buy tickets here to watch over the weekend of February 26-27-28, 2021. Inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and set seven years later.
Training & Webcasts:
• February 26 @ 2pm Eastern: 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.
• February 26 @ 4:30pm Eastern: Howlround Theatre Commons: Design (In A Time of Reckoning): Livestreaming A Conversation: Design Meeting: Structured as a departmental check in, designers will report out on the state of our community and the field as whole. Join Asa Benally, Stacey Derosier, Cherelle Guyton, Caite Hevner, Kris Julio, Lawrence Moten, and Sadah Espii Proctor for a discussion about the social position of designers in the larger theater industrial complex, the interconnectedness of artistry and advocacy, and strategies for co-creating a roadmap into the future. Hosted by Katherine Freer and Porsche McGovern. Watch Here.
• February 26 @ 7pm Eastern: Photona: Pulse 2021: UNCSA School of Design and Production department of Lighting Design and Technology presents this year's Photona, entitled Pulse. This annual showcase highlights the talents and creativity of students within the School of Design and Production. Pulse focuses on both the challenges and accomplishments of the past year and shares stories through an impactful creative medium of music and light. With original compositions by students from D&P's Sound Design program and mentoring by industry leaders and UNCSA professors Eric Rimes, Josh Selander, and Clifton Taylor, Photona has become an engaging annual event. Watch Here.
• February 28 @ 3pm Eastern: TAIT: Performer Flying—Start Your Career: Level-up your performer flying expertise and get some pro tips from TAIT's Sr. project manager, Jim Shumway, on the Industry Explorers livestream series. Watch Here.
• February 28 @ 7pm Eastern: 4Wall Sunday Roundtable: Episode 35: Gaffers: Listen to what these gaffers are doing during the shutdown, gigs they are currently working on, as well as their thoughts on the state of the industry: Christian Epps; Michael Gallart; Evin Lowe; and Jason Uchita. Hosted by 4Wall's Drew Quinones and LD Jeff Croiter. Watch Here.
Looking Ahead Register In Advance:
• March 3 @ 12pm Eastern: Bill Sapsis Free Remote Training: Risk Assessment: A game the whole family can play! Eddie Raymond and Jonathan Deull will join us to discuss the processes for identifying and managing risk in the live event environment. Register quickly, these sessions fill up! Register Here.
Conferences & Special Events:
• 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:
• 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, check out the latest episode 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.
