70 stories by "Rob Halliday"
There's a scene from a movie I love, The English Patient, where, as war breaks out the international band of explorers meet
One of the best books I've ever read about show lighting has nothing to do with lighting at all. In The Blink
I don't know where it has come from, but I suddenly have a terrible case of eco guilt. Maybe it's looking at
You could, if you so chose, take yourself on a technical theatre history walking tour around London's West End. King Street was
Chris Ellis was a prolific lighting designer from the 1970s through to the middle of this decade who for many years also
Alistair Grant " 'Ali Barrel' to all who knew him, a nickname he enjoyed enough to take as his online address "
So an election, eh? Didn't we just do that? No, wait, that was us switching leader without an election. So now we
Could it be that entertainment lighting is actually ahead of the eco curve? After last year's great EU tungsten debates that may
By the time you read this, we will (once again) be approaching the 30-day countdown to Brexit. Shockingly, despite the six months
In this column last month, I bemoaned missing the display of Ivan Kyncl's theatrical photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum in
Ever woken up to the horrible realisation you've missed something? That was me a few weeks ago as it dawned on me
Being on the lighting and the programming and the writing sides of things " a terrible combination of lit stages, dark auditoriums
I realise I've been silent on the subject of the EU and entertainment lighting, with no update since last October. There's no
If I'd tried to imagine what the beginning of the end of the tungsten light bulb would look like, it might have
Recently, I went to see Hamilton. Yes, late to the party I know, but sometimes working in theatre means you don't get
Is it possible that theatre is built in three layers? On stage. Behind the scenes. And then behind the behind the scenes:
Can we just think for a minute about a friend of mine, who has a gig on March 30 " in Europe.
Any way you look at it, and whatever your political views, March is shaping up to be quite the debacle from which
If I were more entrepreneurial or much better connected, the business I'd be getting myself into right now is providing mortgages for
I promised to write more about the saga of lighting and European Union rules as soon as there was more. And now
My five-year-olds appear to have discovered lighting " by which I mean in their bedroom they have LED reading lights that can
Our world is not quite like other worlds. The work isn't work so much, as all-encompassing life. The time spent doing it
What happens to a story after it stops being headline news? After the initial urgency has gone, it often seems to gently
Perhaps stage wizardry only seems like magic if you can't figure out how it's done. And to some, theatrical lighting may feel
It feels like we could do with a break from the UK and lighting this month " although because of your support,
