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How to Care for Your Stage Drapes – And When to Let Them Go

Bought to you by Theatre Safe Australia Whether you’re managing a school hall, professional venue, or performance space, your stage drapes play a bigger...

1st December, 2025

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How to Choose the Right Load Monitoring System for Venues: 7 Key Criteria

Bought to you by Theatre Safe Australia Once you recognise the importance of knowing what’s happening overhead in real time, the next question comes...

21st October, 2025

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ANALOGUE VS DIGITAL: DOES IT MATTER? AND IF SO, WHY?

When it comes to technology, there’s a question that surfaces time and time again: when is it appropriate to implement the next big thing?...

18th March, 2024

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Swapping diesel generators for solar-powered battery banks on live events

By Richard Cadena A stagehand was setting up for Willie Nelson’s line check on the first day of his Luck Reunion festival outside of...

22nd May, 2023

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You Can’t Afford to NOT Previz

By Chris Lose We tried the bar napkin sketches. We tried arts and crafts models. We tried making concerts out of doll house furniture....

27th August, 2020

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Rehearsing Reality

By Brad Schiller By now, you have probably been home for weeks, if not months, and you have undoubtedly attended countless on-line training seminars....

26th May, 2020

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Using DMX Merge for Pixel Mapping

By Vickie Claiborne With today’s productions relying more and more on visual impact, the video and lighting elements of a show play huge roles...

24th April, 2020

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Tech Topic: Patching Perfection

By Brad Schiller Lighting programmers must have proficiency when it comes to preparing and maintaining the patch in their show file. Without a patch,...

27th March, 2020

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Tech Topic: Evolving Workflows

By Vickie Claiborne We’ve all heard the saying, “the only thing you can count on is change.” And change is constant in the world...

11th March, 2020

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Open Your Mind to Augmented Reality

By Chris Lose We have passed the dystopian 1984. We passed the space odyssey 2001. We are into 2020, and the future is officially...

21st February, 2020

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How to Tour and Stay Married

By Chris Lose Traveling for work is hard. Being the partner left behind is even harder. It’s not a competition of who has more...

31st January, 2020

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Time for an Update

By Brad Schiller I recently purchased a new “smart” television, and now it wants me to update the software. Reading over the release notes,...

19th November, 2019

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Tech Topic: Focus and Zoom

By Brad Schiller Automated lighting fixtures have many different features to assist in creating a multitude of looks on stage. Gobos, colors, prisms and...

18th October, 2019

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Platform Perfection and Pitfalls

By Brad Schiller There are several key manufacturers of lighting consoles in our industry, and each has its pros and cons when it comes...

8th October, 2019

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Tech Topic: Rig Check!

by Brad Schiller Before any race car driver gets to the starting line, he or she will run the car through a series of...

23rd August, 2019

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Tech Topic: Worst Possible Idea

By Chris Lose Whoever said there’s no such thing as a bad idea never owned a Ford Pinto, never watched Sharknado and never drank...

10th July, 2019

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Free Plugfest RDMnet Webinar

A live broadcast of an “Introduction to RDMnet” is being presented by the ESTA Control Protocols Plugfest organizers Sunday, July 21 from 7:00 p.m. to...

24th June, 2019

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Tech Topic: Merge with Caution

by Brad Schiller Lighting programmers are both creators and keepers of essential lighting data. Often this data may need to be combined with other...

19th June, 2019

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Colour Matters

by Brad Schiller Scientists generally believe that the average human can see millions of different colors, or at least different hues/shades of color. The...

10th May, 2019

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“But My Console Said So…”

by Brad Schiller Lighting programmers must put a high level of trust into their lighting consoles. Not only do we count on them to...

11th February, 2019
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