An encyclopedia of lighting terms and practices, essential equipment, techniques, and concepts.  Includes some 1,200 alphabetically arranged entries, with extensive cross-referencing, and 350 drawings, diagrams, and charts. For both novice and experienced theatre technicians. Contains basic formulas for quick and easy solutions to lighting requirements. Especially useful for elementary and secondary schools as well as community theater.

Authors: Norman C. Boulanger, Warren C. Lounsbury.  Comb binding, 197 pages.

The Backstage Handbook is one of the most widely-used stagecraft textbooks in the United States. It brings together under one cover an incredible variety of information useful to designers, technicians and students who work behind the scenes in theatre, film and television. Its sturdy leatherette binding will stand up to years of constant use.

Includes chapters on Tools, Hardware, Materials, Electrics, Shop Math, Architecture and Theatre, with hundreds of illustrations, tables and charts that cover everything from safe working loads for several kinds of rope to illustrations of twenty-two types of standard lamp bases.  Our sales people use this on a regular basis to help clarify equipment terms, lamps, and connector types when speaking with many of our customers.

Author: Paul Carter. Illustrator: George Chiang. 309 pages.

Concert Lighting is a comprehensive primer on lighting design for concerts. Placing special emphasis on rock-and-roll concert lighting equipment and techniques, the book takes its reader on tour, covering every aspect of that experience for the touring professional lighting technician and designer. It also devotes several chapters to cross-media use of concert lighting techniques. Discussions of applications in film, video, the theatre, and the corporate world demonstrate the ways in which today's lighting designers cross over into other design areas.  A real-life look at what a lighting designer does, from fighting for contracts to designing a show.

Sample contents:

• The Design Stage
• Cueing the Music
• Road Safety
• Examples of Techniques
• Equipment Designed to Travel

Author: James L. Moody.  279 pages.

This single volume encyclopedia of stage craft for the entertainment industry gives easy-to-find answers to the language of the stage and studio. Includes definitions of all technical aspects of stagecraft, particularly in the areas of trusses, rigging, and automated lights and their control. More than 200 terms, along with 25 new drawings, have been added, many existing definitions have been expanded and drawings revised to include technological developments.  The best reference book available for the professional as well as students.

Sample contents:

• Automated light control
• Bo-bar
• Bounce it
• Chase control
• Daisy chaining
• Donkey
• Flats
• Multiplexing
• Paint and paint colors
• Projectors and projection screens
• Rigging systems
• Shin buster
• Sound equipment
• Stage crew
• Stages
• Uncle Buddy

Authors: Warren C. Lounsbury, Norman C. Boulanger.  Spiral binding, 231 pages.