ABTT and the ABTT Theatre Show are pleased to be supporting Performing Theatres? ABTT’s main purpose is to raise technical standards in the theatre by collecting and making available information concerning theatre planning, stage machinery, lighting and sound equipment, acoustic, scenery construction, stage management and all aspects of presentation.

ABTT provides a forum for discussion among theatre technicians through the publication of its magazine, Sightline and through regular meetings. Today membership of the ABTT is around 1900 and rising. The Association runs special interest groups including Health & Safety, Training, Theatre Planning, and Historical Research, runs an Industry Supporters Group and arranges specialist visits to theatres across the UK.

ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.) is a global leader in entertainment and architectural lighting, dedicated to technical innovation and customer service. ETC manufactures award-winning Source Four® luminaires; Congo™, Congo jr, and the new Eos™ and SmartFade™ ML control consoles; Sensor® dimming; Unison® architectural dimming; Smart Solutions™ compact lighting gear, and more. ETC has its headquarters in Middleton, Wisconsin, and offices in New York; Hollywood; Orlando, FL; Copenhagen; Veenendaal, the Netherlands; Rome; London; Hong Kong; and Holzkirchen and Berlin, Germany. ETC has more than 560 employees worldwide, including in-house customer and technical service departments offering 24-hour phone support.

London Calling Arts is one of the UK’s most effective marketing and audience development specialists. We provide our clients with support and advice on all aspects of marketing and audience development as well as on wider business development and brand strategies.

Our services include audience analysis, print distribution, digital development, outdoor marketing, events management and recruitment as well as marketing, pr and development consultancy.

Through our commercial and strategic partnerships, we are constantly exploring new services to empower clients with the skills and technologies to complement the evolution of their business strategies.

‘Charcoalblue is a dynamic theatre consultancy practice offering specialist advice on spaces intended for the presentation of drama, opera, dance, music, film and art.

Charcoalblue uses a holistic and partnering approach in all of its work, and gives special emphasis to collaboration and user consultation. Our work is rooted in a dual commitment to theatricality and innovation, with a strong desire to focus on exciting user-led projects.

We believe that every part of an arts building should be informed by the lessons of the past, but must also, by taking advantage of new techniques and materials, be capable of meeting the demands of the future.

Charcoablue understands that all projects, from strategic feasibility level through to construction, present a unique set of challenges that we will constantly strive to meet with imaginative solutions. We ensure that our advice and guidance is precisely matched to the needs of each project.

Theatre Projects Consultants is an international team of theatre designers, planners, and theatre equipment specialists offering a comprehensive approach to performance space consulting. Our consulting projects range from major national theatres, performing arts centres, concert halls, lyric theatres and opera houses to smaller scale educational and community facilities.

Harlequin is the established leader in floorings for the performing arts, with an extensive and well-known range of stage and studio floorings plus sprung floor systems for portable and permanent use. For nearly 30 years Harlequin has supplied customers from small amateur theatres to The Royal Opera House with a comprehensive range from portable, roll-out floors to cushioned and heavy-duty floors, including special effects such as ultra high gloss finishes. A wide range of accessories includes roll storage bags, straps and carts, tapes and cleaning and maintenance products and, for dance studios, a professional collection of wall-mounted and freestanding ballet barres.

For over 35 years, Northern Light has been one of the UK’s leading providers of technology for the performance, presentation and events industries. Northern Light has completed technical installations in theatres throughout the UK, Europe and the rest of the world and offers unparalleled quality and expertise.

In addition to technical theatre services, Northern Light supplies; consultancy on and installation of audio visual systems, hire of sound, light and staging equipment, retail sales of performance equipment and theatrical supplies, event production services and health and safety consultancy and service.

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White Light offers an unparalleled entertainment lighting service: hire, sales, installations and service across the theatrical, educational and corporate event industries. The exclusive UK distributors for Robert Juliat luminaires, LSC consoles and dimmers, Look Solutions smoke machines, Rainbow colour scrollers, ELC DMX tools, LDDE colour changing fluorescents and LEDS, as well as Wireless Solutions DMX transceivers, and one of the UK’s largest hire stocks of conventional and automated fixtures. White Light has over 35 years experience, an extensive workshop facility in Wimbledon (London) and its own online order facility.

Great shows for great audiences – now and in the future. The Young Vic aims to create and present great productions of the great plays of the world to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, nurturing the talent of younger theatre professionals, and to develop a love of theatre amongst young people. We present seasons of work by new directors in tandem with productions by some of the great directors of the world. By mingling youth and experience, ambition and genius we hope to make the Young Vic one of the most exciting theatres in the world. We believe a theatre should be a place of energy, intelligence and pleasure. Join us whenever you can.

The Stage and its hugely popular website, The Stage Online, is the UK’s primary source of information for and about the performing arts and entertainment, serving the trade but also read extensively by the general public.

Relaunched less than a year ago, the publication has substantially increased and improved its coverage in all areas, with new and extended sections including those devoted to backstage, technical and training issues.

The Stage is delighted to support the Performing Theatres? conference and its aim of bringing together all sides of the industry to create venues which better serve the needs of all those who use them.