Permanent vs. Temporary Stage Lighting: What’s Best for Your Venue?
by PORT on Aug 1, 2025 4:35:05 PM
Stage lighting is a critical factor in the success of your venue’s events, impacting everything from performance quality to operational costs. Venue managers often face the crucial decision of investing in a permanent lighting solution or relying on temporary setups. To help guide you …
Rigging Inspections: Ensuring Safety and Compliance for Your Space
by PORT on Nov 27, 2024 12:49:10 PM
Ensure the safety and compliance of your performance space with a professional rigging inspection. Learn what’s involved, why it’s important, and how our experts at PORT can help keep your equipment in top condition.
Upside-Down Elegance: Rigging Christmas Trees at The Liberty Hotel
by PORT on Nov 29, 2023 10:56:30 AM
Learn how PORT rigged all of the upside-down Christmas trees at The Liberty Hotel in Boston, MA.
How Theatrical Rigging Creates Customized Venues and Productions
by PORT on Oct 31, 2022 8:00:00 AM
Whether you’re working on a professional stage show or are a student apprenticing for your high school musical, you’ve likely used rigging. Counterweight rigging, motorized rigging, and dead-hung rigging include components that bring many different aspects of theater to life, whether …
High School Theater
by PORT on Jul 11, 2022 8:00:00 AM
There is no question that participating in high school theater teaches students a broad range of life skills including teamwork, problem-solving, and multitasking, regardless of whether they are audience-facing or working behind the scenes.
5 Levels, 6 Performance Spaces, One State-of-the-Art Theatrical Center
by PORT on Jun 4, 2022 3:38:59 PM
We recently had the privilege of installing the theatrical lighting, rigging, and curtains for Phillips Exeter Academy’s new, state-of-the-art Goel Center for Theater and Dance.