I’ll be the first to admit I’m a little slow on the uptake, but I think I’ve finally figured out why the folks involved in the U2 360° tour have been so hesitant to have the shots taken of the set. It’s because it’s not finished.

Sure, “The Claw” has been built, the lighting, video and PA have been flown in, and the final cues are being worked on even as more

Willie Williams is a remarkably calm man, but giving birth can do that to you. We’re inside Camp Nou, situated in a residential neighborhood in the hills above Barcelona, Spain, normally home to FC Barcelona of soccer fame but these days serving as the world’s largest maternity ward for the world’s largest baby. And Willie is sharing details of the birthing process as only a tired but proud papa can.

The more

The good news is that the campaign to mobilize the lighting industry to fight the proposed Texas House Bill 2649 appears to be working: reports coming out of ESTA and IALD indicate that the legislators offices are being flooded with calls.

The bad news: some of those calls have been a little rude.

The legislator’s offices are reporting some nasty comments mixed in with the reasoned pleas, and both ESTA and IALD more

I’ll say one thing about this industry: it’s certainly plugged in. Ever since word broke on Tuesday about this nasty bit of Texas legislation (Texas House Bill 2649, or THB2649) that would prohibit lighting designers who work in Texas to work on projects without being licensed as either an electrician, architect, engineer, landscape architect or interior designer, blogs, social networks, and other online media lit up like Super more

By now you have all probably heard about the passing of lighting legend Tharon Musser. We’ll be posting lots of tributes to her in the coming days and weeks, but wanted to get the ball rolling with a look back at a roundtable we conducted several years ago with many members of the original design team of A Chorus Line. Held during the Broadway Lighting Master Classes back in 1999, more