A few weeks ago, Birmingham Hippodrome raised the curtain on its first ever home-grown youth production with a dynamic re-imagining of West Side Story. Opening to a sell-out audience, the show was the centrepiece of the venue’s 120 th birthday and featured forty local young performers. The show’s Lighting Designer David Howe takes us through his design for the show and the role it played within...
For the past two decades, Kentucky band, My Morning Jacket (MMJ) has been serving up its own unique brand of rock music. Piloting their light show, an essential part of their stage dynamics, for over 13 years has been Marc Janowitz of E26 Design, frequently drawing on different generations of GLP LED solutions to meet his requirements. The entire impression range has provided him with a solid...
White Light has supplied the lighting equipment for Falsettos which is currently running at London’s Other Palace Theatre. Originally performed on Broadway in 1992, Falsettos is a double Tony Award-winning musical which offers a poignant look at the life of one family as they live through the AIDS crisis. Despite other productions across the globe, this is the first time the show has been...
Lighting Designer Robinson Wilson allows the Rosco Color of the Week posts he sees on our Facebook page to inspire him to try new colors and color combinations in his work.
White Light has returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe where it is supplying the lighting and rigging equipment for all of the Gilded Balloon venues for the sixth year running. Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world’s single biggest celebration of arts and culture. Every August, the Scottish capital welcomes around 3,500 shows in over 300 venues, including theatre, comedy, dance, circus, opera...
The ALD has launched its annual award scheme, previously the Michael Northern awards, aimed at all students and recent graduates studying in the UK, it also unveils its streamlined rebranding with a new name, The ALD Awards for Excellence.
White Light has supplied the lighting equipment for the UK premiere of the Broadway musical Amélie , which recently embarked on a UK tour . Originally performed on Broadway, Amélie is based on the 2001 romantic comedy film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and tells the story of an astonishing young woman who lives quietly in the real world but loudly in her mind. This UK premiere is directed by Michael...
White Light has supplied the lighting equipment for the recent West End transfer of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin following its critically-acclaimed UK tour. Based on Louis de Bernières’ best-selling novel , Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is the world-famous story of romance in the face of the Second World War set on the idyllic Greek island of Cephallonia. The production marks the novel’s first major...
This weekend marks the final performance of the iconic Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre in London’s West End. The theatre will close temporarily as it undergoes some much-needed restoration work. It will reopen on 18th December as the Sondheim Theatre with a brand-new production of Les Misérables as it embarks on its 35th world record-breaking year. It would be fair to say that Les Misérables...
For the past five years, lighting designer Charlie Morgan Jones has lit the bi-annual opera at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. This year marks the final one in which the original creative team will work together, having formed a formidable relationship in 2014. As White Light has supplied the lighting for most of the shows, we thought we’d look back on the history of the opera and speak to...