Two years after we first arrived on campus, our project with Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music has come to a close. The university’s 1,460 seat The Musical Arts Center (MAC) has been compared to New York’s Metropolitan Opera, and now boasts a Flyhouse-updated rigging system.
Looking Up!
After months of planning and preparation, Flyhouse will begin installation next week at the Fishers Event Center in Fishers, Indiana, about 20 miles northeast of Indianapolis. Our team is familiar with tight timelines, and this project is no different: We have six weeks to complete our work, a window of time between when the venue is […]
Summer Holiday
Vacation season means Safer Venue season for Flyhouse. We’re on the road, helping local and not so local theaters with inspections and repairs. We provide inspections, training, and maintenance all year-round, but summer offers many theaters a break from heavy-use and operation, particularly education-related spaces. And those breaks mean we can get to work! This […]
It’s Showtime!
The Getz Theater Center at Columbia College Chicago was originally built in 1929 and most recently renovated in 2018. The Flyhouse crew was back in recent weeks at the Center’s Sheldon Patinkin Theatre. While the pipe grid we installed in this black box space isn’t the largest in our portfolio, it brought unique set of challenges. Our crew […]
A Big Reveal
Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry has a new name—and Flyhouse played a role in the reveal. The new Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry acknowledges Griffin’s unprecedented $125 million donation to the institution. Flyhouse was asked to be on hand last weekend, and help capture the momentous occasion.Our crew installed two custom printed, temporary […]
Local Upgrade
A recent project has kept our crew close to home: Chicago’s historic Athenaeum Center, located near the intersection of Southport and Lincoln Avenues in the Lakeview neighborhood. The venue, which opened in 1911, is Chicago’s oldest operating theater outside of the downtown Loop area. As part of recent updates, our crew provided three new 50’ […]
