Last night marked the annual WhatsOnStage Awards. As a company, WhiteLight have supported the Awards for several years, sponsoring the Best Lighting Design category which has been won by Neil Austin, Hugh Vanstone and Natasha Katz to name but a few. Naturally, this year’s awards were slightly different. Not only did they take place virtually via a live stream from the Turbine Theatre in London but...
Today, #WeMakeEvents launches a hard-hitting campaign, rallying the UK Government to provide urgent relief to a struggling live events sector. The Government Can’t See Us, Can You? shows the devastation the pandemic has wrought on the live event supply chain – told through the stories of the highly-skilled professionals whose livelihoods have been seriously damaged. #WeMakeEvents is calling on the...
Originally slated to reopen Leicester’s Curve Theatre as part of a season of socially distanced ‘in-the-round’ shows, Sunset Boulevard in Concert was forced to become a streaming event due to continued lockdowns in the UK. Nevertheless, the technical production continued to be supported by new generation Profile, Spot and Wash lighting from GLP, as originally planned, which now took on an...
The Grange Festival is a summer opera festival that takes place at The Grange in Hampshire. Following its first season in 2017, the Festival has become renowned for showcasing world-class operas, all taking place within the stunning setting of a country estate. While the Festival normally hires lighting equipment for each season, they recently decided to invest in a permanent rig and approached...
The Great Christmas Feast has now opened in a secret London location. Created by The Lost Estate, London’s master experience makers, The Great Christmas Feast transports audiences to the streets of Victorian London and the chambers of Charles Dickens, immersing them in the tale of A Christmas Carol through a mix of theatre, live music, fine dining and Dickensian mixology. It is making a much...
Back in September when it was announced that theatres could play to socially-distanced audiences, this saw a range of venues prepare for their re-opening. One of these included the Charing Cross Theatre which re-opened with the world premiere of GH Boy. The lighting designer was Tony Simpson, who approached White Light to supply the lighting equipment. GH Boy is a brand-new piece of writing which...
Taking place at a purpose-built centre on the Humber, Thrive is a fully-interactive, multi-media safety leadership programme that immerses participants in a real-time, live-action scenario. The concept was created by Active Team Training (ATT) and offers those taking parta truly ground-breaking training experience. Having collaborated with White Light (WL) on previous award-winning projects, ATT...
Last night, the winners of this year’s Olivier Awards were announced in a special programme presented by Jason Manford at the London Palladium which was broadcast on ITV as well as streamed live on Official London Theatre’s Youtube channel. White Light once again sponsored the Best Lighting Design Award which was won by Paule Constable for her work on The Ocean at the End of the Sea at the...
As our industry slowly returns to work, AAPTLE members are eager to make theatre again and to collaborate with our fellow artists and theatre workers. Let’s work together to share best practice and create vibrant, inclusive, accessible and representative theatre and live entertainment of which we can all be proud.
Yesterday marked the #WeMakeEvents Global Day of Action in which countries from across the globe came together in solidarity to highlight the plight that is currently facing the worldwide live events industry. The evening featured a range of creative responses, such as lighting iconic buildings in red to highlight how the industry is in red alert as well as beaming shafts of white light into the...