Manchester City plans immersive venue next to stadium

AV Magazine: Manchester City Football Club has submitted a planning application to Manchester City Council for a new immersive event venue at the Etihad Campus. The venue, which will be next to the UK’s largest indoor music arena, Co-op Live, will host the immersive theatrical dining experience Mamma Mia! The Party.

Best arts and healing space on the north side

Chicago Reader: Uptown—specifically the corner of Lawrence Avenue and Broadway—was once the cradle of Chicago entertainment. From the now-closed Uptown Theatre (opened in 1925) to still-thriving venues like the Riviera Theatre (1918), Aragon Ballroom (1926), and Green Mill Cocktail Lounge (1907, but called Pop Morse’s Roadhouse until 1910), the neighborhood boasts culturally diverse attractions and dining.

Live Nation to Operate New Amphitheater in Cleveland

www.ticketnews.com: Bedrock and Rock Entertainment Group have unveiled plans for a 6,200-seat outdoor amphitheater along downtown Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River, marking the first new large-scale music venue built in the city in more than two decades.

Only 1 in 4 Chicago indie venues is profitable, says new study

Chicago Sun-Times: Chicago’s independent music venues have been putting on a good show lately. Relative newcomer The Salt Shed is selling out most shows and leaning into an onsite music village concept with a record store, guitar shop and food trucks. Meanwhile, Wrigleyville stalwart Metro is unparalleled with its rare club showcases from bands like Metallica and Green Day.

Sphere Entertainment Eyes National Harbor for Second U.S. Venue, Smaller-Scale Model

TicketNews: Sphere Entertainment Co. has announced plans to develop a new Sphere venue at National Harbor in Maryland, marking what would become the second U.S. location for the immersive entertainment concept and the first to utilize a smaller-scale design model. The announcement was made in partnership with the State of Maryland, Prince George’s County, and Peterson Companies, according to a joint press release issued Sunday.

The Sphere Could be Headed to Your City (With a Smaller Footprint)

gizmodo.com: The company behind Las Vegas’s Sphere announced plans on Monday to bring a smaller version of the orb-shaped venue to the National Harbor outside Washington, D.C.

A look at some of the worst fires in bars, nightclubs and music venues

PBS News: A fire at a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana in the early hours of New Year's Day has left dozens of people presumed dead and around 100 injured, according to authorities.

San Francisco's Iconic Bottom of the Hill to Close After 35 Years

www.ticketnews.com: San Francisco’s Bottom of the Hill, an intimate, 360-cap venue in Potrero Hill, has welcomed rock superstars like Green Day, Oasis, The White Strips, and Alanis Morrissette over the years. However, after 35 years in operation, the venue has officially decided to close its doors at the end of 2026.

The Red Rocks Effect: Analyzing Low-Frequency Behavior In Raked Venues

ProSoundWeb: Prediction software has become an indispensable component of the modern sound system design process. System designers can create a 3D mock-up of the audience geometry and then experiment with loudspeaker choice, quantity, placement and aiming until the predicted coverage meets the design goals.

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.

These Cincinnati Arts Organizations and Venues Will Require Audience Masks and Vaccinations or Negative COVID-19 Test

Cincinnati Theatre News: In order to ensure that the show(s) can go on, Cincinnati arts organizations and venues have banded together to present uniform COVID-19 precautions going into the fall season.

Sahara Las Vegas comes alive with new entertainment options

Las Vegas Sun Newspaper: The legendary Las Vegas Strip casino resort first opened in 1952, changed ownership several times as places like this usually do, went through a challenging period as SLS Las Vegas from 2014 to 2019, and returned to its original name two years ago after the Meruelo Group purchased it in 2017.

Increasing Consistency at Hamilton College with RCF HDL

LightSoundJournal.com: The town of Clinton, NY is the home of Hamilton College. Precision Audio Services has provided audio engineering services to the college’s Music and Theater Department for several years, and this spring the company heads up a sound system upgrade in Wellin Hall. The 700-seat hall has served as the central hub of music education and concerts for the college since its construction in the 1980s.

Application process for Shuttered Venue Operators Grants will not restart this week

Broadway News: The application process for the Shuttered Venue Operators Grants will not reopen by this weekend, a spokesperson for the Small Business Administration told Broadway News Thursday.

Documenting the End of a Theater – Capitol Theatre, Racine, WI

After the Final Curtain: In late December 2020, a representative of the Wisconsin Historical Society contacted me. They asked me if I was familiar with what was happening at the Capitol Theatre (Park) in Racine, Wisconsin. I had heard of it, but I didn’t know anything about its current state.

The Winners of the ASTC-USITT Challenge 2021 are…

ASTC: A team from the University of Virginia was awarded the top prize in the 2021 ASTC-USITT Venue Renovation Challenge competition on April 9th, 2021. The ASTC Edgar L. Lustig Award of $2,000 was presented to the University of Virginia team during a live YouTube video broadcast for their proposed renovation of the McIntire Amphitheater on the UVA campus. The theoretical project transformed a limited use outdoor amphitheater into a venue that can support a large variety of performing arts events along with additional functional support spaces.

National Negro Opera Company House in Homewood receives $500,000 for restoration

Arts + Entertainment | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper: A major Pittsburgh-based nonprofit is helping to bring the National Negro Opera Company House in Homewood, an important piece of the city’s Black history that has stood vacant for over 50 years, back to its former glory.

Japan’s Sakura Hall Blooms with L-Acoustics

LightSoundJournal.com: The Kitakami Cultural Exchange Centre, affectionately known as Sakura Hall, is a community hub in the Iwate Prefecture of Japan. Since opening in 2003, its small, medium, and large-sized halls have welcomed performances by national groups and local independent artists. The centre also features rooms for arts and craft workshops, rehearsal rooms for ballet and dance, and a music room for musicians to practice after office hours.

COVID-19 Restrictions Being Lifted Doesn't Mean Venues Are Opening

Consequence of Sound: Over the past 24 hours, several states have reduced the restrictions in place to curb the spread of COVID-19. On Tuesday, both Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves abruptly decided to lift all capacity restrictions on businesses and end their states’ mask mandates starting next week. Then today, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that plays, concerts, and other performances can resume indoors at limited capacity beginning next month. Just because music venues are allowed to reopen, however, doesn’t mean they’re all jumping at the opportunity to do so.

Indie music venues are struggling to survive — and running out of time and money

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: For the last 30 years, Ron “Moondog” Esser has been Pittsburgh’s biggest proponent of the blues, between running the Pittsburgh Blues Festival and playing host to both legends and newcomers at his club Moondog’s in Blawnox. In 2005, The National Blues Foundation in Memphis honored him with the “Keeping the Blues Alive” award.