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Last Call For The Second Annual Excellence In Live Design Awards

Nominations are now being accepted for the Second Annual Excellence in Live Design Awards, honoring outstanding individual achievement in design for projects occurring from September 2007 to October 2008...

Group One Appoints Matt Larson As New Professional Audio National Sales Manager

Group One Ltd. is pleased to announce the appointment of Matt Larson as its national sales manager for Professional Audio Products...

LDI2009 Planning Continues

Planning for LDI2009 in Orlando is well underway, with conference sessions and show floor dates as follows...

The ESTA Foundation And USITT Announce Control Protocols Workshop

The Joint Training Initiative of The ESTA Foundation and the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) announce a Control Protocols Workshop to be held two days prior to the annual USITT National Conference in Cincinnati...

Going for the Gold

Check out all the stories that made the cover of Live Design in 2008. From theatre to concerts, from Broadway to Paris, here is one of our cover newsmakers of the past year. Five thousand years of Chinese history and culture culminated on Friday, August 8 at the opening ceremony for the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing. It's as if......

Nine Lives

Check out all the stories that made the cover of Live Design in 2008. From theatre to concerts, from Broadway to Paris, here is one of our cover newsmakers of the past year. What is most surprising about Roy Bennett's production and lighting design for the latest Nine Inch Nails tour the designer's fourth with the band is......

Revolutionary Spirit

Check out all the stories that made the cover of Live Design in 2008. From theatre to concerts, from Broadway to Paris, here is one of our cover newsmakers of the past year. It was the best of times. Jill Santoriello, who set to work on a musical version of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities when she was 15 years old, saw......

Rem Cycles

Check out all the stories that made the cover of Live Design in 2008. From theatre to concerts, from Broadway to Paris, here is one of our cover newsmakers of the past year. For the last few years, production and lighting designer Susanne Sasic seems to have been the reigning monarch of the art rock scene, designing tours......

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Housing For Master Classes in NYU Dorms

Low-cost housing in NYU dorms is available for BLMC and BPMC attendees...

Registration Open For 2009 Live Design Broadway Master Classes

Online registration is now open for the 2009 Live Design Broadway Master Classes with an early-bird special representing $100 off all prices through March 28, 2009 ...

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