The Starving Theater Artist

My old rule was that a musical has a busy enough soundscape with music and singing and dialog (and footsteps and audience sounds and so fort...

Ventilation fan blew on one of our ETC "Sensor" packs during the ballet. Stood a box fan up next to the dimmer pack to keep it goi...

Okay, bad joke. My long run of feeling in good health suffered a stumble of cold or flu.  Right on top of two back-to-back kid's shows...

I've written here before about the design process of theatrical sound. But I've also gone through a whole string of shows lately in ...

Charlie Stross recently blogged* about the industry practice known dysphemistically as a "death march." It is an institutional hab...

I'm in tech on a crazy show (forty kids, four casts, two directors, Disney script, etc.) Hit bad by the flu (or one of the bugs going ar...

And after all that brave talk, I build yet another mesh with mostly extrusions. Which is slower to build and slower to map. And after all th...