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 […]
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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’ […]
Learning to Fly
Flyhouse was again proud to support one of our local high school theaters (Carl Sandburg High School, Orland Park, Illinois) this past week, providing our two-axis Ziplift performer flying rental system for their performance of Monty Python’s Spamalot. Our team installed the motorization, trained the operators on the joystick control, and provided a safety and flight […]
See You In Seattle
Next week we’ll be joining industry friends at the 64th USITT Annual Conference & Stage Expo in Seattle, March 20-23, 2024. As the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc. describes their annual event: USITT24 is bringing you the education, networking, recruitment opportunities, and the Expo floor you love along with reimagined all-attendee events, our industry’s latest and […]
