Saturday, March 28, 2020
There’s a scene from a movie I love, The English Patient, where, as war breaks out the international band of explorers meet
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMTuesday, March 3, 2020
One of the best books I’ve ever read about show lighting has nothing to do with lighting at all. In The Blink
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, February 4, 2020
I don’t know where it has come from, but I suddenly have a terrible case of eco guilt. Maybe it’s looking at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, January 7, 2020
You could, if you so chose, take yourself on a technical theatre history walking tour around London’s West End. King Street was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, November 27, 2019
Chris Ellis was a prolific lighting designer from the 1970s through to the middle of this decade who for many years also
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AMWednesday, November 20, 2019
Alistair Grant – ‘Ali Barrel’ to all who knew him, a nickname he enjoyed enough to take as his online address –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMTuesday, November 19, 2019
So an election, eh? Didn’t we just do that? No, wait, that was us switching leader without an election. So now we
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, October 22, 2019
Could it be that entertainment lighting is actually ahead of the eco curve? After last year’s great EU tungsten debates that may
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, September 24, 2019
By the time you read this, we will (once again) be approaching the 30-day countdown to Brexit. Shockingly, despite the six months
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, August 27, 2019
In this column last month, I bemoaned missing the display of Ivan Kyncl’s theatrical photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, July 30, 2019
Ever woken up to the horrible realisation you’ve missed something? That was me a few weeks ago as it dawned on me
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, July 2, 2019
Being on the lighting and the programming and the writing sides of things – a terrible combination of lit stages, dark auditoriums
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, June 4, 2019
I realise I’ve been silent on the subject of the EU and entertainment lighting, with no update since last October. There’s no
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, May 8, 2019
If I’d tried to imagine what the beginning of the end of the tungsten light bulb would look like, it might have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMWednesday, April 10, 2019
Recently, I went to see Hamilton. Yes, late to the party I know, but sometimes working in theatre means you don’t get
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMTuesday, March 12, 2019
Is it possible that theatre is built in three layers? On stage. Behind the scenes. And then behind the behind the scenes:
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMTuesday, February 12, 2019
Can we just think for a minute about a friend of mine, who has a gig on March 30 – in Europe.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Any way you look at it, and whatever your political views, March is shaping up to be quite the debacle from which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
If I were more entrepreneurial or much better connected, the business I’d be getting myself into right now is providing mortgages for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, October 30, 2018
I promised to write more about the saga of lighting and European Union rules as soon as there was more. And now
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
My five-year-olds appear to have discovered lighting – by which I mean in their bedroom they have LED reading lights that can
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, September 5, 2018
Our world is not quite like other worlds. The work isn’t work so much, as all-encompassing life. The time spent doing it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMWednesday, August 8, 2018
What happens to a story after it stops being headline news? After the initial urgency has gone, it often seems to gently
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, July 10, 2018
Perhaps stage wizardry only seems like magic if you can’t figure out how it’s done. And to some, theatrical lighting may feel
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, June 12, 2018
It feels like we could do with a break from the UK and lighting this month – although because of your support,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, May 15, 2018
Yes, this is lighting and the EU again. Sorry. No, actually, not sorry. Because the more you dive into this, the more
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, April 17, 2018
Whether you think you care about lighting or not, it is vital that you pay attention right now. Please. Otherwise, in just
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, March 21, 2018
I have a memory of watching the movie Titanic when it was first released and thinking, “Crap, we’re in trouble.” The ‘we’
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
As a kid, I was fascinated with the eye of the storm, the calm at the very centre of a raging hurricane.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, January 25, 2018
The use of our beloved tungsten light bulbs in entertainment is again under threat by the European Union’s well-meaning, but in certain
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:39AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
For something so intrinsically precise, time is strangely malleable and bending time is a big part of what we do in theatre.
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