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June 14, 2025
Published by Staff on June 14, 2025
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Performance venues offer a range of accommodations for patrons such as wheelchair spaces, assistive listening devices, and sensory-sensitive performances or areas. One accommodation that theatregoers may not be familiar with is designated aisle seats.
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June 2, 2025
Published by Paul Sanow on June 2, 2025
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While it is important to understand the unique needs of performers and the public, another group is often forgotten in space planning. Just because they wear a lot of black and stay out of the public’s view it does not mean their needs should be forgotten. Let’s find some room for the stage crew.
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June 1, 2025
Published by Howard Glickman on June 1, 2025
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ASTC Member Howard Glickman reflects on how performance lighting has changed over the years. Those changes have got him thinking about how systems might be designed to better train students of today for the work of tomorrow, regardless of their career trajectory. Every consultant has different approaches to the design of lighting controls systems. This is an idea Howard considers a possible path.
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May 13, 2025
Published by Joe Chapman on May 13, 2025
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Continuing our series of art found backstage, a different look at how a venue remembers the shows that have come through a building. This time a look backstage at the LA Forum in Inglewood (now Kia Forum).
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March 19, 2025
Published by Robert Jenista on March 19, 2025
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The results are in for the 2025 ASTC-USITT Venue Renovation Challenge. The competition was fierce and amazing. Four teams competed at the annual USITT Conference for two prizes.
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March 13, 2025
Published by Joe Chapman on March 13, 2025
Two ASTC Board of Directors have left the Board, and two new ASTC members will serve on the Board. Plus, the ASTC announces a new member, bringing the total membership to 82. The Board of Directors determined that the new member met the professional qualifications for membership in the ASTC.
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December 13, 2024
Published by Staff on December 13, 2024
Audience safety is an important part of the work of the building’s design team. When the lights go down at the start of a show, members of the audience still need to be able to find their way in the auditorium. Steps alongside audience seating have some important requirements.
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December 13, 2024
Published by Kevin Greene on December 13, 2024
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Sprinklers are important features in any building. When it comes time to install fire protection in any performing arts building it is important to understand the purpose of the building and to think a little bit differently. Coordination is key.
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November 20, 2024
Published by Robert Smulling on November 20, 2024
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Theatres have many traditions, including remembering past shows. In what we hope to be an ongoing feature, some well-preserved show art from the mid-20th Century lives on.
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