STUDY: Where Americans Spend the Most on Live Entertainment

www.ticketnews.com: Live entertainment is booming — and so are the prices. In the third quarter of 2025, the average concert ticket cost $128.46, up 34% from the same period just six years earlier, according to Pollstar. Among the top 100 touring artists this year, the average show grossed more than $2.4 million, up 29% from a year ago.

Sphere Entertainment Buys Back $27.5 Million in Stock

www.ticketnews.com: Sphere Entertainment Co. has repurchased more than 629,000 shares of its Class A common stock, the company announced, signaling confidence in the long-term prospects of its Las Vegas venue and media businesses.

'The Wizard of Oz' Is Going to Make $1 Billion at The Sphere

No Film School: When you drive into Las Vegas from Los Angeles and crest over the desert, the Sphere is one of the first things you can see at night. Its neon lights light up the night with whatever it's advertising that night.

LED wonder wall shines for Oasis

LightSoundJournal.com: While Noel and Liam have been playing the songs in their solo guises, the clamour for Oasis never abated. And 16 years after their acrimonious split they’re back with a setlist for the ages. That’s the story.

Ross Expands Graphics LED Display Control Rendering Capabilities with Tessera One

Creative COW: Ross Video irreversibly changed the world of graphics rendering in 2017 with the launch of XPression Tessera, a product developed specifically to enable sports and entertainment venues to drive pre-rendered and real-time rendered graphics on any resolution LED display at limitless pixel resolutions. Now, Ross is excited to announce the release of XPression Tessera One – a new all-in-one solution that provides over six million broadcast-quality pixels to drive engaging content to venue LED displays and video walls in news studios.

Strangers in Strange Lands: Production Live! Recap

Pollstar: Returning to the road after the pandemic shut down live entertainment touring has been a tricky act of balancing limited human and other resources against the old adage, the show must go on.

The challenge and thrill of staging North by Northwest

limelightmagazine.com.au: Adapting the more epic elements of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic satirical 1959 spy thriller film North by Northwest for the stage became possible with live filming and projections and innovative set and lighting design, augmented by some old-fashioned actorly running on the spot.

Concert Pros Talk Ways of Ramping Up Festival Safety, Post-Astroworld

Variety: In the wake of the Astroworld tragedy, should festivals and concerts have a single person charged with the power of stopping a show if conditions grow dangerous? What greater demands will insurers be making since that Texas festival pointed up how an entertainment event can turn deadly? And where does responsibility start, or the buck end, if things go terribly wrong at a show?

How much do performers get paid for the Super Bowl halftime show?

ktvb.com: The pinnacle of nationwide, televised performances is perhaps none other than the annual Super Bowl halftime show. But it may surprise you to know that despite all the extravaganza and hefty price tag to operate the halftime show, the NFL ends up paying the singers and headline performers nothing.

Using VR & AR in Live Music

AMT Lab @ CMU: Consider a scenario where one of your favorite artists is performing, but the show is sold out and even if you could get a ticket, you would be so far away from the stage that you might as well just stay at home. So, how do you manage to not compromise the experience while taking into account the convenience and economic factors?

Behind the scenes at East London’s art-deco gem – The Troxy

www.ianvisits.co.uk: One of East London’s art-deco gems is being restored to its original glory as decades of clutter and mess are cleared away. This is the Troxy, built in the 1930s as a cinema, later an opera rehearsal site followed by two fat ladies as a bingo hall, and now being restored as a music and entertainment venue.

Entertainment Leaders Discuss Resuming Production, Safety Protocols

Variety: Following weeks of lockdown, production for several shows has resumed with new safety protocols in place to protect cast and crew members. Leaders in the entertainment industry are looking to innovate their approaches to content production, including reimagining budget allocations and what series will look like for viewers.

Why Monitor Mixes Change

Church Production Magazine: Let's rewind back to rehearsals. Everyone plays a little riff (usually independent of the rest of the band) so techs can set gain levels. Then performers make their personal monitor mixes. Generally in rehearsal, songs are stopped, started, restarted, transitioned, transposed… and the list goes on. The performers may not be overly confident in the songs or the transposed key and everyone is feeling out their role in the song.

Our last chance to save music venues is right now.

slate.com: Until the morning he decided to shut it down, Will Eastman had been planning a 10th anniversary bash for U Street Music Hall, his much-loved, no-frills dance club in the District of Columbia. Nestled along one of the city’s main nightlife drags, it’s a plain, black-walled basement space with a sternum-shaking sound system, where in the days before the coronavirus, 500 people could get sweaty to some underground deep house or drum and bass, catch an indie band, or hear a set from one of the bigger acts like Four Tet, Disclosure, Robyn, or Diplo who would sometimes stop by. To mark a decade of U Hall—as its devoted fans call it—Eastman had booked the biggest batch of events of his career as a promoter and DJ.

What Arts Organizations Can Learn From Sports in the New Normal

AMT Lab @ CMU: The following study is part of an Arts in the Age of Covid research team project. This study is compiled from the research conducted and summaries articulated by Clara Perez Alfaro and is being published as a three-part series. The first introduces the similarities and potential opportunities that arts organizations, particularly performing arts institutions, can find by studying how the sports industry is adapting post-Covid-19. The second and third focus on two specific cases: La Liga and the NBA.

IAAPA Cancels IAAPA Expo 2020 Due to COVID-19

Lighting&Sound America Online - News: IAAPA, the global association for the attractions industry, announces the cancellation of IAAPA Expo 2020 in Orlando, Florida. In addition, the association is launching a new virtual conference for global attractions industry professionals so that they can take part in many of the education sessions originally planned to take place at IAAPA Expo.

Before Live Music Returns, One Artist Is Taking Reservations

Rolling Stone: As Covid-19 has befogged any realistic timetable for the return of live music, English singer-songwriter Jacob Collier is trying something new while he prepares for his yet to-be-dated 91-show tour. Rather than announce new dates and ticket sales and hope touring can resume in a given time slot, Collier will employ a reservation system through a partnership with ticket reseller Lyte that guarantees fans spots at a show once the date is officially announced.

Factors that will change the future of live events

www.fastcompany.com: Over the years, corporate live events have transformed to include celebrity speakers, VIP access, exclusive private dinners, mobile-first ticketing, and a wide assortment of high production value add-ons—one of which being a film recording or, more recently, live streaming capabilities. But it wasn’t until the majority of the world went into quarantine that the concept of digital broadcasting went from being a cool addition to an in-person event to becoming its central focus.

US Music Venues Will Light Up Red on Sept. 1 to Demand Passage of The Restart Act

Billboard: Music venues across the U.S. will bathe their facilities in red light on Tuesday evening to encourage Congress to pass the Restart Act, which would provide much-needed assistance for millions of Americans who have lost income due to the pandemic.

Colorado’s entertainment industry; thousands without work look for ways to adapt

www.rmpbs.org: The first real signs of economic distress hit Colorado in mid-March with the cancellation of almost all entertainment activities due to stay-at-home orders.

Concerts, musicals, conventions, graduations, and performances of all kinds stopped. So did the careers and incomes of the skilled professionals who make them happen.

Stagehands, grips, makeup artists, theater electricians… thousands working behind the scenes in Colorado’s entertainment industry were left without work.