Rob Halliday

Remembering Michael ‘Biglad’ Burgess-Shaw of Theatre Royal Drury Lane and Jack Thompson, a long-time technical director of the Manchester International Festival

Lighting designer and programmer Rob Halliday offers advice on what the training options are if you are looking to pursue a career in technical theatre

Being brave and bold enough to follow your own vision is the key to becoming a great lighting designer, says Rob Halliday

Rob Halliday discusses the need to be more careful when it comes to cyber security and technical systems

Theatre workers seem to feel guilty, or worried for their jobs, if they take time off, says Rob Halliday

ETC recently announced that it would stop making most of its tungsten lighting fixtures, citing falling demand – this will have a huge impact on lighting designers

What I long for is a party of of soaring, lofty ambition, with plans for all of the big challenges and solutions to the smaller ones

The old adage no longer seems true when it comes to the backstage industry, but the distribution of that money is something to pay attention to

The challenge of producing a book took me well beyond my usual zone of expertise. This was yet another of the lessons I would learn from the late, great Richard Pillbrow

Forty years ago, Starlight Express changed the game for technical theatre, inspiring a whole new generation of theatre fans in the process