Pitbull, the Grammy Award-winning American rapper, singer, actor and entrepreneur, recently wowed audiences at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas resort hotel, picking up incredible reviews. The task of adapting his recent Party After Dark tour for a show renamed Vegas After Dark fell to his long-term creatives, production manager Victor Martinez and creative director Yamil Charif (of YC3 Design). Charif...
With an eminent history dating back almost 100 years, Proctors is a 2,646-cap. theatre based in Schenectady, upstate New York. It had largely fallen into disrepair when the city took over ownership in 1977 and initially earmarked to be torn down, before it was saved – thanks to its historic status – by the National Park Service, which offered to buy it for $1 and run it as a nonprofit. In 2005...
The 60th edition of the Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM) saw a return to the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas – hosted by country legend Reba McEntire for the 18th time. Co-lighting designers Michael Berger and Travis Hagenbuch both have a long association with the event, starting out as interns many years ago. “It’s been a nice full-circle experience working with Travis in this...
A very well-known figure in the entertainment lighting industry, Brad Schiller has joined GLP to lead the new Lighting Technology Engagement Team, based out of the company’s Americas headquarters in Los Angeles, California. In a decades-spanning career, Schiller has been at the forefront of many lighting innovations that have made their way into the mainstream from his work with manufacturers...
GLP fielded its large ever deployment of fixtures at Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival for the recent 2025 event – including all its latest in-demand touring products. The massive global event has been staged successfully across two weekends since 1999 at its Empire Polo Club location in the Californian desert, close to Palm Springs. Various stages – including the main stage and Sahara tent...
Tim Routledge became one of the first production designers to specify GLP’s new versatile and supercharged Creos – part of a cornucopia of lighting that animated Florian Wieder’s coruscating set design at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Basel. These washlights were joined in the designer’s toolkit by another newly released GLP fixture, in the shape of 12 MAD MAXX CW fat beam...
GLP has appointed Paris-based MiD ( Musique Industrie Développement, mid.audio) as its new French distributor – coinciding perfectly with the latest edition of the GLP-sponsored Showlight lighting networking show being held in Dijon (19–22 May 2025). With a dedicated Artbox showroom located at the Parc de l’Évènement in Longjumeau (south of Paris), MiD operates throughout the country, carrying...
The 67th annual Grammy Awards, honoring the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the year, returned recently to its traditional home: the Crypto.com Arena (formerly Staples Center) in Los Angeles. It also returned to its long-term show lighting designer, Full Flood Inc., whose founder, Bob Dickinson, has been designing the Grammys since 1994, bringing in Noah Mitz as co-designer in 2017...
At the recent Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 (JESC) in Madrid, the lighting design by Raphaël Demonthy (Sunrise Studios GmbH) was based around finely tuned technology from GLP, which created enormous impact under demanding conditions. In the Caja Mágica, a well-known tennis arena in Madrid with a capacity of 12,000 seats, more than 250 GLP fixtures ensured that the performances of each of the...
CAPE CROSS Entertainment Services GmbH is a technical full-service provider for film, TV, shows, events and sports based in Cologne. In 2025 it is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The company provides lighting, sound, rigging, cranes, stage and post-production technology for events and TV productions of all sizes, and ensures smooth operations. At the end of last year, the company expanded its...