After 28 years in his former location, Tony Award-winning lighting designer Ken Billington and his company, KB Associates, have moved to a new office in the August Wilson Theatre, 257 W. 52nd Street, 4th floor, NY NY 10019. His telephone remains the same: 212-362-4030, and his website is www.kbany.com. Ken won his 1997 Tony for the Broadway hit revival of Chicago, which is still running, and his work was recently more

If you haven’t already read the review, of sorts, of the acoustics at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hally article on nytimes.com, check it out. It says, in part, “With giddiness and glee, musicians tested the acoustics of the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday,” and “The musicians, acoustical experts and Lincoln Center officials in attendance all proclaimed the hall much more present, alive and reverberant than the old more

Remember the hovering UFO we covered last year here, created by New York artist Peter Coffin and Dominic Harris of Cinimod Studio? Well, Harris tells me there are more flights planned for this year, but in the meantime, he has just completed a collaboration with Chris O’Shea on a lighting installation currently on exhibit at Science Gallery at Trinity College in Dublin and headed soon to London. It is more

I hear the following expressed by people in the entertainment industry all the time: “Everything will be fine, because entertainment is recession proof. During the depression theater thrived in New York…”. I hear that a bunch more lately. It’s comforting… I’ve said it myself, and have ALMOST allowed myself to believe it. But this isn’t 1929. And ‘entertainment’ is an industry that spans all more

This is amazingly cool and should appeal to the geek in all of us, especially the sci-fi geek. Time has a great article on its website today about physicists developing invisibility cloaks and teleportation. Think of the possibilities! It’s more fun than thinking about the morbidities of companies closing and all the folks who signed up for unemployment last week. Possibility is way more fun. more