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When the Screen Is Bigger Than the Band: Eagles Live at Sphere
Eagles Live at Sphere puts the band beneath a 160,000-square-foot 16K screen, revealing why restraint can…
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Tina Turner’s 80-Foot Stage Arm Reached Into the Stadium
A 60-foot hydraulic arm carried Tina Turner over arena audiences, supported by a travelling carriage and…
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David Bowie’s Giant Spider Exposed a Stadium Design Problem
Bowie’s 60-foot spider carried six kilometres of colour-changing light, aerial performance, dancers and multi-level scenery—but Bowie…
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Bon Jovi Put Five Industrial Robots on a Rock Stage
Five ABB IRB 7600 industrial robots carried LED screens on Bon Jovi’s Circle Tour—joining into one…
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Kanye West Removed the Stage—and Put It Above the Audience
A suspended, travelling platform about 15 feet above the crowd replaced the conventional stage on Kanye…
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Peter Gabriel Put a Second Stage Above the First
A 40-tonne overhead structure, steerable projection, flown audio and a circular stage turned Peter Gabriel’s arena…
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Inside the 20-Metre Robot That Carried Take That
OM could sit, travel, move its arms, carry performers in its hands and finally rise to…
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Harry Styles Had 5 Million Fans—The Stage Had to Feel Smaller
An in-the-round stage, 12 PA hangs and cameras trained on the band: inside the engineering that…
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Sarah Brightman: The Voice Phantom Was Built Around
Christine Daaé was not simply a role Sarah Brightman was hired to sing. Andrew Lloyd Webber…
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Lea Salonga: The Human Scale of Miss Saigon
At 17, Lea Salonga was cast as Kim in a production famous for one of Broadway’s…
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Tim Rice: The Lyrics That Built the Stage
No producer wanted to stage Jesus Christ Superstar, so Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber released…
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Elton John: When Pop Music Entered Broadway
A year before Aida opened on Broadway, its songs were already being performed by Tina Turner,…