Late last month, The Theatre School at DePaul University kicked off their year-long 100th anniversary celebration. Originally known as Goodman School of Drama, the program joined DePaul University in 1978, and is the oldest theater program in the Midwest. The Theatre School boasts an impressive list of alumni, but we’re even more impressed with the […]
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Solutions at Sea
It’s cruise season for Flyhouse! We service the hoists on nine Celebrity Cruises and four Costa Cruises ships every six months, with regular service all ships in either spring or fall. This round for Celebrity, we’re thrilled to bring back training for their aerial performers and technicians. With that, it’s officially a return to normal […]
Sky Fall
Chicago’s Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) debuted a new exhibit this weekend, 007 Science: Inventing the World of James Bond. To help kick off the exhibit, Flyhouse partnered with C5, a Chicago-based performer flying company. The operation? Support a visual flying effect for MSI’s 44th Annual Columbian Ball, which included a special highlight […]
On the Catwalk
The Flyhouse team recently returned to Chicago Shakespeare Theater to help provide a unique flying effect for their current performance of Henry V. Our conversations began over the summer with the theater’s technical team about how to incorporate this flying effect into their upcoming production. Knowing the space in this venue’s catwalks can be challenging, and always mindful of […]
Testing, Testing
At Flyhouse, the products we recommend come from our professional field experience. And when no out-of-the-box solution is available, our team of in-house engineers develops its own. Every custom Flyhouse product we create brings about equally custom and challenging testing protocols. Recently, a custom challenge passed through our shop involving our new zero-fleet point hoist, […]
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 […]
