After seven months of major building works, the world-famous Joan Sutherland Theatre (JST) reopened on NYE with Opera Australia’s performance of The Merry Widow. Graeme Murphy waltzed his way through many a production of The Merry Widow for the Australian Ballet, and now turns his renown as a director and choreographer to the operetta itself.…
Mount Isa Entertainment and Tourism Venues (MIETV) manages three, Council owned, entertainment and tourism venues: Outback at Isa, Buchanan Park Events Complex and The Mount Isa Civic Centre. Over the past year they have made substantial investment in new lighting gear putting their trust in Show Technology. Being located in a remote regional location, support…
Once again Trudy Dalgleish lit the annual Schools Spectacular at Qudos Bank Arena over the weekend. Chameleon supplied the rig which included 100 x Martin Professional Viper Profiles, 30 x Viper Performances, 60 x MAC 2000 XB washes, 22 x MAC TW1 narrow lens, 30 x MAC Quantum Wash, 31 x Claypaky Alpha 1500 Profiles…
Bankstown Sports Club was founded in 1958 by a group of sport representatives who wanted to create a communal meeting place for the various sports in the local community. Over the years, it has grown and developed into one of the largest clubs in NSW, and now supports more than 40 local sporting clubs and…
Two of Sydney’s most iconic nightlife venues, Merivale’s ivy and Establishment, have had a lighting facelift in time for spring and Production Technician Matthew Osborn is having a fine time with his new toys. The aim at Establishment was to add some more movement and colour variation to the existing Saturday night lighting. Called Establishment…
Melbourne has a new dance club with XE54 opening in an underground basement on City Road. The Southbank venue spans four rooms, three bars and two dance floors. Its owner and operator is Roar Projects, the hospitality company behind Melbourne spots Alumbra and Ms Collins. Taking care of the club’s fit-out was Michael Delany of…
Michael Zagarn, Lighting Designer & Consultant, has added fourteen ShowPro LED FusionBAR Q XV and sixteen ShowPro LED Profile FC fixtures to his inventory. The ShowPro LED FusionBAR Q XV is an outdoor-rated Quad-colour (4-in-one) RGBW one-meter LED batten that delivers vibrant linear colour washes and an individually controllable 15 x 1 pixel matrix. “It…
Since taking on all things lighting and audio for Hornsby RSL a few years ago, Nick Brown of GNB Productions has steadily improved the lighting in the venue’s auditorium. The most recent upgrade saw Show Technology supply twelve ShowPro LED Flood EX21, thirty-four Nitec LED Hex PAR 12’s and six Ayrton MagicDot SX. Prior to…