Pat McKay (founder of LDI and former publisher of Theatre Crafts and Lighting Dimensions) pointed out the obituary in The New York Times for theatre historian Brooks McNamara, who passed away at the age of 72 in early May. As she pointed out, “Brooks was an early contributor to Theatre Crafts magazine, pioneer of popular culture studies, mentor to decades of NYU students and many members more

Known for his fabulous lighting of TV awards shows, such as the Oscars, Bob Dickinson has been pegged to light the new Tonight Show on NBC, hosted by Conan O’Brien. In fact, Bob was mentioned in an article in USA Today, where O’Brien refers to him as “one of Hollywood’s top lighting directors.” How true, how true!

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

In a Sunday, May 24 article entitled Setting The Stage With Shadows, J.D. Biersdorfer in The New York Times examines the work of the celebrated stage designer Robert Edmond Jones (1887-1954). The article examines Jones’ designs for a 1930 production of the Schoenberg Opera, Die Glückliche Hand, (The Hand of Fate), in which lighting casts shadows on the expressionistic set of craggy peaks. The drawing pictured in the Times 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