Deaf West Theatre’s ASL Version of “American Buffalo” Includes Wireless Headphones for the Hearing-Enabled

LOS ANGELES, CA — Together with Deaf West Theatre, California State University Los Angeles took an unusual approach to its co-production of David Mamet’s American Buffalo, which wrapped in early March. A majority of the production was performed in American Sign Language (ASL), which meant the hearing audience not conversant in ASL needed a little assistance understanding the lines. Enter Sennheiser wireless headphones, which delivered spoken lines to each hearing audience member’s ears.

HOUSTON – At Second Baptist Church’s 400,000-square-foot West Campus in Houston, which televises services within its 5,000-seat “in the round” worship center, Covenant Communications worked with global tech director Mark Sepulveda to replace the legacy DiGiCo consoles used for FOH and monitor mixing with two DiGiCo SD5 desks.

NEW YORK – For the Broadway musical Honeymoon In Vegas at the Nederlander Theatre, co-sound designer Scott Lehrer specified two TiMax2 SoundHub-S48 audio show control delay-matrix systems supplied with the new TiMax MADI-64 Ultimate MADI Interface port to provide signal distribution and delay-based on-stage localization functions.

LOS ANGELES, CA – World Agape Mission Church (WAMC), established for Korean immigrants by the Reverend John Kim in Los Angeles in 1977, recently installed an extensive loudspeaker array from VUE Audiotechnik to address the sanctuary’s acoustical and aesthetic needs.

ROANOKE, VA — IES Communications AV project manager Jim Hogan and his team upgraded the audio setup used for the Hotel Roanoke & Convention Center with a system based around seven Symetrix SymNet Radius AEC and three SymNet Radius 12×8 open architecture Dante-scalable DSPs.