Stage lighting is the craft of lighting as it applies to the production of theater, dance, opera, and other performance arts. Several different types of stage lighting instruments are used in this discipline. In addition to basic lighting, modern stage lighting can also include special effects, such as lasers and fog machines. People who work on stage lighting are commonly referred to as lighting technicians or lighting designers.
An electrical lighting technician, or simply lighting technician, are involved with rigging stage and location sets and controlling artificial, electric lights for art and entertainment venues or in video, television, or film production.
This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for outstanding lighting design of a play or musical. The award was first presented in 1970. Since 2005, the category was divided into Lighting Design in a Play and Lighting Design in a Musical with each genre receiving its own award.
Jean Rosenthal is considered a pioneer in the field of theatrical lighting design. She was born in New York City to Romanian-Jewish immigrants.
Stanley Russell McCandless is considered to be the father of modern lighting design. He paved the way for future lighting designers by making contributions to almost all aspects of theatrical lighting, from the engineering of lighting instruments to consultant work, and designing realized theatrical productions. Perhaps most importantly he wrote one of the seminal works on the theory of stage lighting, which continues to influence the technique of most theatrical lighting designers to this day.
Tharon Myrene Musser was an American lighting designer who worked on more than 150 Broadway productions. She was termed the "Dean of American Lighting Designers" and is considered one of the pioneers in her field.
The following is a list of players both past and current who appeared at least in one game for the Toronto Blue Jays American League franchise (1977–present).
Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical adventure drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Sean Penn. It is an adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name written by Jon Krakauer and tells the story of Christopher McCandless, a man who hiked across North America into the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless, Marcia Gay Harden as his mother, William Hurt as his father, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Brian H. Dierker, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, and Hal Holbrook.
Ken Billington is an American lighting designer. He began his career in New York City working as an assistant to Tharon Musser.
Chris Parry was a theatrical lighting designer. He worked on several Broadway and West End productions and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design three times, winning for The Who's Tommy. He also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design three times.
His Dark Materials is a play written by British playwright Nicholas Wright, adapted from the Philip Pullman fantasy novel trilogy of the same title. The production premiered in the Royal National Theatre's Olivier Theatre, London, in 2003. Due to the complications in staging a piece containing the narrative of three books, the play was performed in two parts in alternate performances. The play is published by Nick Hern Books.
Musser is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
This list comprises all players who have participated in at least one league match for Charleston Battery since the establishment of the team in 1993. Players who were on the roster but never played a first team game are not listed; players who appeared for the team in other competitions but never actually made an USL appearance are noted at the bottom of the page where appropriate.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to stagecraft:
Poor Murderer is a play written by Pavel Kohout that premiered at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway on 20 October 1976 and closed on 2 January 1977 after 87 performances.
McCandless is an Irish surname. It is derived from the Gaelic Mac Cuindlis meaning 'son of Cuindleas', a given name of uncertain meaning. In historical census and other data, the name is mostly confined to the province of Ulster, especially County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland, and counties Antrim, Down, and Derry/Londonderry in Northern Ireland. The name is closely related to McCandlish. McCandless has also been attested in Scotland. It is etymologically but probably not familially related to the western Irish Ó Cuindlis, a literary family of Uí Maine.
This is a list of the five national teams who played the 1975 Rugby League World Cup.
Richard Winkler is an American theatre producer who has produced dozens of productions on and off Broadway. Usually serving as a co-producer or investor, Winkler is the enhancing Producer of 42nd Street at the Goodspeed Opera House. He has won eight Tony Awards and five Olivier Awards.