Well, it finally happened. QLab had its official Broadway debut today:
http://www.greaseonbroadway.com/
Not too shabby.

Yesterday John Leonard wrote to report:

Last night, QLab made its (probable*) debut in London’s glittering West-End. Screaming crowds surrounded the Duke Of York’s Theatre in St. Martin’s Lane, blocking the road as the smitten hordes tried to get a glimpse of the star of this production.
OK, most of this is true, except I suspect the [...]

Joel Adria, a high school student in Edmonton Alberta, Canada, recently wrote to say:

Thank you so much for making this incredible program.
I was assigned a One Act play this year that I dubbed “The Death Play” for having so many sound effects one after another.
After thinking there must be a better way than loading CDs, [...]

Jevon Hills of Broad Minds Productions recently wrote to say:

Your product is wonderful, I’m on closing night of my production for which I used QLab for soundscape and video projections. I’ve been showing off to several other theatre companies in Calgary…
I ran sound and a combination of stills, still montages, and movies off [...]

Noah Mehl recently sent some photos of a show he did at the Guggenheim with choreographer Luca Veggetti. Noah writes:

Three pieces, two of them with projections. All were influenced heavily by Noh theater. The two we did were:
Traces — Projected on the ceiling to match the movements of the dancers. QLab [...]

Live Design magazine just wrote up a great little piece on the new video features: QLab Debuts Video: The Mac App Garden Grows. Jake Pinholster writes:

Figure 53’s QLab software for Mac OS X has gotten some attention lately—though probably not enough—for its live, timeline-based audio playback. [...] But the reason QLab makes it [...]

On page 39 of the March issue of Stage Directions Magazine you’ll find a shout out from Temple University:

Minor point deduction for miscapitalization, but hey, I won’t hold it against ‘em.

Congratulations to Dave Mickey, who just won the Robert E. Cohen Sound Achievement Award from USITT for Looming Bias!
As you may recall from its appearance on this very blog, QLab was the master controller for sound, lights, and the interactive elements of Dave’s design.
Congrats Dave!

Those of you not on the QLab mailing list may not be aware that there’s an exciting new plugin coming out soon: the Video Cue.
This cue is in the final stages of beta testing, but a few brave souls have already used it in the wild. One of the first was Tom Rijndorp, an [...]

Dave Mickey writes:

Looming Bias was an interactive, installation, Dance Performance Art Piece that took place in Pasadena California, Oct 21, 2006. The central element of the sound design was based on the interactive sound programmed using Max/MSP, Teleo, and QLab. QLab, which was the master cue list, controlled which triggers Max/MSP should have [...]