If you are a lighting designer, I have a small request on behalf of all the stage managers who will…
I recently had two completely silly but frustrating issues happen, both of which I found shortcuts to online. They may…
We’re starting to slowly come back. There have been several updates in the performance world. Here are some things that…
I’ve signed up to do another “SMInstagram” takeover for the Year of the Stage Manager Instagram account. On April 13,…
Over this past year of the pandemic, I’ve slowly built up the equipment I use for virtual events. First off…
I just introduced several stage manager friends to my current favorite website to use when you’re trying to find the…
I’ve been keeping up pretty well with all the latest Zoom updates (yay, co-hosts can now manage breakout rooms!) and…
Yesterday, the Metropolitan Opera posted a Facebook video (embedded at the bottom of this post) highlighting two members of their…
Until a couple years ago, if I saw a circle on a groundplan, let’s face it…I would cringe. Trying to make straight fabric-based spike tape turn into a beautiful curved line was pretty hard. In college, we used to have to do it with a paper-based spike tape, which thankfully I’ve never seen again in the professional world. Electrical tape can be a little easier to form curves, but it stretches and can get awkward as well.
Enter Ruth E. Kramer to the rescue.
As mentioned in the previous post, I’ve been online quite a bit since the pandemic started. Here’s the video from my…