Last weekend I had the great pleasure of traveling to New York as a sponsor for the 2008 Broadway Sound Master Classes. I had the honor of meeting so many amazing folks, from Scott Lehrer (a QLab user whose work on South Pacific was recently nominated for the first-ever Tony Award for Best Sound […]

Anthony Lynch writes:

The show hasn’t opened yet (it opens officially on 22nd May) but I will be using QLab for the sound playback of Lifecoach starring UK comedian Phil Juptitus at the Trafalgar Studios in the West End.

Having been introduced to QLab at Theatre South Carolina, where I’ve been for the last year, I am […]

Chris Moore writes:

Theatre in the Square located in Marietta, Georgia recently opened the last show of Main Stage season with Poetry of Pizza. I used QLab from start to scratch. It work flawlessly!! AS ALWAYS!! I used Digital Performer 5 to record and edit sound effects on one Mac Book Pro and used a shared […]

Last Thursday evening the first revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s masterpiece South Pacific opened at Lincoln Center with sound powered by QLab.  There hasn’t been a single Broadway revival of this landmark work since its original run ended in 1954.  Figure 53 is extremely proud to be part of this highly anticipated event.

South Pacific joins a […]

It’s getting hard to track all the places QLab is used these days.

The McCarter Theatre in New Jersey just wrote up a blog post about their new QLab system that will run four projectors in an upcoming production of The Mad 7.

On Broadway we’ve seen David Mamet’s new play November, Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming, […]

A triple dose of in-the-wild news!
Phil Packer writes to report:

Here’s a little “Rat-Pack” thing we do called “Mackey’s Lounge” for “Right Now Productions” in Walton-On-Thames near London.
The two QLabs are a main and a standby, they are linked together by the box you can see in the front centre, which is basically two USB keyboard […]

Chris Moore, the Head Audio Engineer at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, reports:

The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre is the first major performing arts facility to be built in the Atlanta, GA area in 40 years. This 2,750 seat theatre features the best state of the art systems money can buy. Two years and […]

Award-winning designer John Gromada wrote in yesterday to say:

Tomorrow night ‘A Bronx Tale‘ opens on Broadway with 2 QLab systems running in tandem. This is the first time I have used QLab on Broadway and it has been a resounding success. QLab’s interface is simple and intuitive—allowing complex sequences to be built and modified with […]

Søren Knud Christensen from Denmark recently wrote to say:

Hi there I’m a 19 year old lighting designer from denmark.
OH MY GOOD I LOVE QLAB - i was used to [a PC program] (controlling ETC express and yamaha mixer) and IT SUCKED.
GREAT!

and also sent in this photo of his show “Samlege” at Prøvehallen, Copenhagen:

Thanks Søren!

Jimmy from Meyer Sound wrote again to share this shot of QLab in Singapore:

Thanks Jimmy!