Two venues at Adelaide Festival Centre multi-purpose arts centre complex are now benefitting from new Anolis LED house lighting installations – featuring over 200 fixtures from Anolis’s highly flexible Ambiane range. This has transformed the audience experience in the 2000-capacity Festival Theatre and Dunstan Playhouse, which seats 590, and resulted in an approximately 50% power reduction in...
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TAQA Theater De Vest in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, is a vibrant performance environment that has upgraded its main hall lighting to include a substantial number of Robe moving lights … with 47 x T1 Profiles and 12 x LEDBeam 350s added to the house lighting rig. Most of these are now in daily use in this 700-capacity theatre venue, while another 28 x T1 Profiles and 8 x T1 Fresnels have been...
Reykjavík City Theatre – Iceland’s very popular and oldest continuously operating theatre company, founded in 1897 as the Reykjavík Theatre Company – has invested in more Robe T2 Profile moving lights, following the great success of their first batch purchased in 2023. The first 16 x T2 Profiles – supplied via Robe’s Icelandic distributor Luxor – were picked to replace the venue’s previous front...
Theater de Kampanje in the northern Netherlands city of Den Helder is a vibrant environment running a diverse and interesting programme of dramas, musicals, comedy, music concerts, and touring shows across its three performance venues. Also hosting business and corporate events, the annual schedule presents around 500 shows / events a year. Initially located in the city centre, since 2015 Kampanje...
Lighting designer Rachel Marlow of Auckland-based visual design studio Filament Eleven 11 used Robe T11 Profiles and T11 Fresnels at The Court Theatre in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she lit two new productions in succession at the end of 2025 and start of 2026. The new venue is part of Christchurch's earthquake recovery plan – enacted after the devastating 2011 event – which saw it completely...
Theater De Storm in Winterswijk, the Netherlands, has been a client of Martijn Klein Gebbink of Frontline Audio & Vision for 20 years, and last year, he delivered an impressive package of 124 x Robe lighting products, including 12 x ESPRITE moving lights fitted with the HCF (High Colour Fidelity) LED engine, 80 x T11 Profiles, 12 x TX1 PosiProfiles and 20 x T15 Fresnels. The theatre has three...
One of Ukraine’s famous opera houses – Lviv National Opera – has been investing in Robe moving lights over the last five years and now has 16 x Robe Tarrantula large LED wash beams and 22 x T1 Profiles, which are among 146 moving lights in total available in the house rig. Located on Freedom Avenue in central Lviv, Ukraine, a beautiful and historic major Western city, the majestic Lviv Opera House...
Robe moving lights continue to be a popular choice for theatres in the Netherlands, with the new Theater aan de Parade in Den Bosch providing another great reference site, with over 200 Robe products in the house lighting rigs of its two principal performance spaces. The contemporary glazed architectural masterpiece designed by MVRDV sits on the footprint of the previous 1976 theatre building...
South African theatrical technical production specialist, Gearhouse Splitbeam, has invested in 16 new Robe iFORTE moving lights which are out on a major new GWB Entertainment production of the iconic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, “Cats”, one of the world’s longest running, most popular and successful musicals. Presented in collaboration with Peter Toerien Productions by arrangement with The Really...
Last night, the OffWestEnd Theatre Awards (Offies) celebrated the extraordinary creativity and talent that define the UK’s independent theatre scene. Marking its 15th anniversary, the ceremony unveiled a bold new direction, moving away from the traditional category model. Instead, the Offies introduced eight areas of exceptional contribution, reflecting the diversity, artistry, and ambition that...