Total Production International

White Light (WL) recently supported the Watermill Theatre’s ambitious new production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, where lighting designer Jai Morjaria has delivered a bold and inventive design that transforms a compact venue into a world of spectacle. Tasked with reimagining a much-loved musical within one of the UK’s most intimate theatre spaces, Morjaria approached the project with a clear brief to achieve the seemingly impossible.

Principal Designer and Director of Design at Visual Terrain, Steven Young, brought the hit musical Mean Girls to life at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts using a dynamic rig of Elation lighting solutions, including the award-winning Paragon S LED profile, along with Proteus Odeon, and Pulse Bar fixtures.

Lighting Designer Jen Schriever and Associate Lighting Designer Aaron Tacy are using Robert Juliat’s SpotMe performer tracking system and three powerful Robert Juliat Lancelot followspots on The Lost Boys, Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musical based on the iconic 1987 vampire film. Schriever won a Tony for her work on The Lost Boys with Co-Lighting Designer Michael Arden, who was nominated for a Tony for directing the musical.

AED UK has announced the strategic strengthening of its commercial team with the appointment of Nick Powell as Account Manager and Lee Price as Business Development Manager. The appointments mark a further step in AED UK’s commitment to supporting AV professionals with the right equipment solutions, expertise and day-to-day support needed to grow their businesses.

Laufey’s A Matter of Time tour accompanies the album of the same name and began in 2025, concluding in August 2026 with dates globally. At front of house, Matt Grabe is using a DiGiCo Quantum 338, while monitor engineer, Sebastian Mut, began the tour with a Quantum 338, but expanded into a Quantum 5 for later dates. All consoles are supplied by Sound Image, a Clair Global brand. Grabe started engineering and mixing in studios.

SEL Live has further strengthened its staging and structures inventory with an investment in custom-designed MILOS Keder Tech Sheds, an addition to their MILOS MR2K 12 x 10 mtr roof system, enhancing production flexibility and operational efficiency for festivals, concerts, and live events across the UK.

When the New York Knicks basketball team ended a fifty-three year wait for an NBA  championship by winning game five of the 2026 Finals against San Antonio Spurs, a spectacular and triumphant return to the team’s home city was never in doubt. An estimated two million people took to the streets to welcome their victorious team along the Canyon of Heroes parade route, which saw unprecedented scenes of celebration culminate in a symbolic presentation of the keys to New York at City Hall.

Russell Dickerson’s RussellMania Tour represents a step up in production scale and spans a wide range of venue formats, the lighting rig needed to deliver consistent visual impact in any environment. GLP’s JDC1 hybrid LED strobes helped tie the entire dynamic rig together. Lighting design, programming, and creative direction were led by Nick Chang, owner and lighting/production designer at Prismic Productions, alongside project manager and creative Chris Diener.

Wisycom has further strengthened its ecosystem of professional wireless solutions with the MPR60 Wideband IEM/IFB Receiver with expanded multichannel IFB mode, MATF Wideband Antenna Matrix and PFL Portable RF over Fibre (RFoF) Box, which the company presented at InfoComm 2026. Together, these technologies deliver significant advancements for large‑scale, complex wireless infrastructures across broadcast, live events, corporate production and RF over Fibre applications.

Jerry Harvey Audio (JH Audio) has announced the appointment of GerrAudio Distribution as its exclusive distribution partner in Canada. The appointment follows JH Audio’s acquisition by Sound Devices in May 2025, bringing together two leading professional audio brands. As the Canadian distributor for Sound Devices, GerrAudio is a natural choice to expand JH Audio’s presence and support customers as new technologies and integrated workflows emerge from the partnership.