Nataniël’s most recent production, Mannequin, received an overwhelming response at Emperor’s Palace in Johannesburg. It ran last year from 18th August to the 25th September where once again a familiar formula ensured outstanding lighting results. The show included the use of Philips Vari-Lite VL4000 Spots, VL2500 Washes and VL2500 Spots

  DWR Distribution takes pleasure in welcoming Lee Baird, Marketing Coordinator, to the team. Lee is no stranger to the industry. She worked alongside her partner, Rob Young, at Theatre and Studio, for six years, during this time visiting various theatres in the country and maintaining the day to day

With one of the largest community participation events ever held in Denmark, Aarhus recently celebrated its inauguration as one of the two European Capitals of Culture 2017. The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union for a period of one calendar year during which it

Palace are a much anticipated four piece indie blues rock band from London about which there’s lots of anticipation and excitement and an acclaimed debut EP, “Lost in the Night”. Photos : Lindsay Cave Lighting designer Steve Bewley – well known for this work with Enter Shikari, London Grammar, Dizzee Rascal,

Nearly 200 Robe fixtures were used by award-winning lighting and show designer Terry Miranda of Lighthouse Productions to light a special production of musical “Fakhrak Ya Watan” (The Pride of a Nation) for the 2016 Ras al-Khaimah National Day Celebrations on the eve of the United Arab Emirates 2016 National

The Joburg Theatre have invested in seven more Robin LEDWash 800s to supplement their existing stock and which have been the workhorses on productions like Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood, the brand-new pantomime adventure from Janice Honyeman which ran until the 30th December 2016. “We chose the

For the past decade, Hardus Zevenster from Tygerberg FM has been responsible for bringing the popular Gospel Skouspel to the stage. Two years ago he contacted Marius Marais from Audio Logic to discuss a new look and feel for the show. That’s when lighting designer Joshua Cutts from Visual Frontier

Polimeks İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş. is a Turkish construction company based in Istanbul that primarily operates in Turkmenistan, Turkey, Russia and Kazakhstan. According to the American magazine Engineering News Record, Polimeks is ranked number 59 in the list of 225 largest international contractors. Photos: © Phantom Event Engineering For their recent

Rinus Bakker from Rhino Rigs will be in South Africa to present the Prolyte Rigging Training Course hosted this year in both Cape Town from 6 to 11 February and in Johannesburg from 13 to 18 February in association with DWR Distribution. We caught up with Rinus prior to his

UK –The lighting designers of music superstars Jason Derulo, Dizzee Rascal and Chase and Status requested Claypaky Sharpys and A.leda B-EYE K10s as key fixtures in their touring rigs at UK urban music festival Sundown. Responsible for the mainstage festival rig was Mick Freer, Head of Concert Touring at award-winning

Eindhoven – Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, today announced that its stage lighting will be used in the next leg of Justin Bieber’s rapturously received ‘Purpose’ 2016 world tour. Lighting designer Cory FitzGerald has declared the multi-functional Philips Vari-Lite VL4000 BeamWash luminaire as essential for

Italy – A musical masterpiece returned to the stage at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan. The moving scenery designed by Cristiano Colombi dynamically creates the various different settings. All of them recall the Upper West Side of New York, where the story is set, and Claypaky’s light beams shine out.

JAPAN – The New National Theatre, Tokyo (NNTT) is one of the world’s finest art theatres which opened in October 1997 as a complex of theatres dedicated to the performing arts of opera, ballet, dance and drama.  NNTT has three theatres; The Opera House, The Playhouse, and The Pit.  Each

Ronen Najar, one of Israel’s leading lighting and visual designers has brought his imagination and style to the latest tour by Israeli singer Avram Tal, supporting his latest studio album ‘Now Life’. Photos : Louise Stickland We caught up with the tour at the Tzora Kibbutz near Jerusalem and learned how

Innovative and cutting edge French artist / music producer DJ Snake rocked the Paris Zenith with an incendiary set and a spectacular new visual design by Romain Pissenem of creative production company High Scream … utilizing a lighting rig of nearly 200 Robe moving lights including 64 of the new

Ben Coker, lighting designer for Porter Robinson and Madeon’s co-headlining ‘Shelter’ theatre tour, has just finished an extensive 34 date run in the U.S, with Robe BMFL Spots and WashBeams and Pointes prominent on the rig.Photos : Adam Kaplan The decision to play primarily theatres and sit down venues has

 Anthony Cherry, producer of Friday Night is Music Night, aired on BBC Radio 2, undertook the ambitious project of recreating Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol on stage at the Royal Festival Hall in December. Mark Gatiss, as Narrator and Scrooge, lead a company of star actors and the concert included

As part of their European journey, Swedish metal band Opeth opted for a single show at Wembley Arena for their UK audience. Magnus Boyd has been lighting the band for the last eighteen months. The show at Wembley was a part of the “Sorceress” World Tour. The first portion started

  DWR Distribution’s Kyle Robson would like to introduce the brand new DiGiCo SD 12 console to you. Kyle will be travelling to rental companies in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.   Johannesburg 24 January to 11 February   Durban 15, 16 and 17 February   Cape Town 22, 23

Israel’s Gesher Theatre has recently taken delivery of new Robe BMFL Blades and LEDWash 600s to add to their existing LEDWash 1200s as the Czech moving light manufacturer continues to make an impression in theatres and performance installations. The acclaimed theatre, in the southern Tel Aviv suburb of Jaffa, was

The annual gala Christmas TV show ‘Hodina Detom’ (An Hour for Children) is organised by the Children of Slovakia Foundation to help raise funds and awareness for the charity, which works to empower children and young people nationwide who are living in and dealing with difficult circumstances. Photos Ryszard Perzynski Top

DUBAI – Point a reasonably powered telescope at the planet Mars and you will see the so called canals beloved of science fiction writers. Turn that scope around to view Earth from Mars and a new canal is clearly visible at the heart of Dubai; and this one is no

DWR Distribution’s Gareth Chambers and Jannie de Jager will be travelling to MA Lighting in Paderborn, Germany, for a training week hosted in February which will include MA Networking and the MA Network Switch, Fixture Library tips and tricks, grandMA2 Macros, VPU and MA3D with real world examples of getting

PRG Belgium has recently received a large batch of ProLyft Pro controllers, which will instantly be deployed on productions. After a thorough selection procedure, Prolyte was selected to supply PRG Belgium with its’ high-end control systems. Investing in 30 12-way control units is the first step in further professionalizing and renewing their

Lighting designer Adrian Tan from Light Project is using Robe’s CycBar 15 fixtures to – very efficiently – light the cyc on W!LD RICE’s award winning ‘Monkey Goes West’ production, which is playing a limited holiday season run at the Drama Centre Theatre in Singapore. Photos : Courtesy W!LD RICE The

In a season filled with holiday light displays, Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge, Los Angeles has debuted “Enchanted: Forest of Light,” a unique, interactive nighttime experience. Visitors enjoy a one-mile walk through eight distinct lighting displays in some of the Gardens’ most beloved areas. 6 x grandMA2 onPC stations

England and Wales –  An array of Claypaky fixtures were selected by leading Manchester-based technical supplier Audile to provide extraordinary stage lighting for two of this summer’s more alternative festivals; the inaugural Bluedot ‘festival of discovery’ and boutique arts and music experience Festival No.6. Held at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in

The highly acclaimed World Christmas Circus returned to Amsterdam’s Royal Theatre Carré for their 2016-17 season … for the first time with a new Robe moving light, which was chosen by the hugely popular and successful event’s long term lighting designer, Wim Dresens. Photos : Louise Stickland Wim has lit the

Leading London based rental company Colour Sound Experiment was the first in the UK to purchase Robe’s brand new Spiider LED WashBeam moving light – with 30 being delivered directly after the PLASA expo in London in October. Photos by Louise Stickland. These went straight out on the Placebo “Retrospective”

Johannesburg, South Africa – The Atlas Studio in Millpark, formerly an old bakery but now a popular venue for film and television shoots, has upgraded five of its ten dimmers with Philips Strand Lighting Wallrack 24 Way Digitial Dimming panels. DWR Distribution supplied the new panels and commissioned DimBright Electrical

University of University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music – CCM chooses ArKaos PRO MediaMaster for Green Day’s American Idiot. Photos: Credit Mark Lyons, Sam Igel II, and Aaron Bridgman of CCM The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) chose ArKaos MediaMaster PRO to drive the visual content for its production

Blackmotion, a lighting, audio visual and rental company, are the first in South Africa to purchase 16 Robin 300 Plus LED Wash fixtures as well as in 12 Clay Paky Mythos and recently 8 Robin Spikies. But this story has little to do with the fixtures, you’ll see, and more

Robe moving lights continue their run on high profile theatre shows worldwide, with the new ‘Phantom of the Opera’ production in Stockholm utilizing DL7S and DL4S Profiles and DL4F washes – from the DL LED range – plus Pointes and ColorStrobes, over 50 fixtures in total. Photos : Matthew Murphy The

Carols by glowsticks and a picnic was held at the Rosebank Union Church based in Sandton. It was established in 1906 and is actively involved with missions and outreaches both locally and around the world. When a need arose to upgrade the auditorium’s traditional lighting system, and having received numerous

U.S. rock band Blink-182 – known for their raw, adrenalized, hi-energy performances – are back on the road and blasted straight back up to the top of the charts in both the U.S. and U.K. with their new studio album ‘California’ and single – Bored to Death! Photos : Dom Smith,

In the midst of university students uprising with the Fees Must Fall campaign in South Africa, Varsity Sing proved that music transcends all boundaries. Hosted by Kyknet, an Afrikaans television channel, Varsity Sing visited universities across the country as their choirs went head to head in a sing off! Varsity

USA – Clay Paky Mythos and Sharpys lit up the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) at New York City’s iconic Madison Square Garden.  Lighting designer Bob Barnhart used a large complement of the fixtures for the live telecast, which was shown on multiple Viacom cable networks and through smart

USA – Once again Nocturnal Wonderland owned the night when North America’s longest-running dance music festival marked its 21st anniversary in September.  The festival is presented by Insomniac and Pasquale Rotella. Lighting designer Stephen Lieberman of SJ Lighting, Inc. in Westlake Village, California deployed Clay Paky Mythos and Sharpy fixtures

Over R2 million was raised in aid of youth development at the fourth annual Chefs Who Share – the Art of Giving Back. Since its inception, CCPP Group have supplied the full technical for the black-tie gala event which is usually hosted in the Cape Town, but this year was

Aardklop National Arts Festival 2016, held at Potchefestroom, saw freelancer Jaco Beukes from SJ Audio trying out the DiGiCo S21 on a show for the first time. Jaco was based in the Sanlam Auditorium where he was the main sound engineer for the venue and helped guest engineers for artists

DWR Distribution take pleasure in announcing the appointment of Annalise Hodgson who will lend a helping hand to Duncan Riley as a much-needed assistant. Annalise initially joined the entertainment industry unknowingly, responding to an advert in the Star newspaper that read, ‘Join the team that’s off the wall in fun.’

  ITALY – Lighting manufacturer Osram, which celebrates its 110-year brand anniversary this year, is joined by another famous institution: the Westin Excelsior Hotel in Rome was opened in 1906 and is therefore celebrating its 110 years anniversary. To mark the occasion, Claypaky – a company of the Osram group

The 2016 BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore tennis tournament was presented by SC Global and staged at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang over a seven day period at the end of October. Photos: OC images are courtesy of Lagardère Sports / technical shots by Jens Poehlker Over 100 Robe moving