Creating Daylight In An 11" Space

By Stan Schwartz The design team for Clybourne Park, this year’s Tony Award winner for Best Play, had a real problem. The upstage wall of the set calls for a kitchen window, through which the...

Joel Svendsen July 17, 2012 Questions?

Creating Three-Dimensional Foliage Scenery = The Most Fun You'll Ever Have

Peter Miller, Theatre Design Department Faculty at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, had an inspired revelation at USITT in 2011. He noticed that many of the set designs that...

Jenny Knott May 15, 2012 Questions?

Get The Scoop on Rosco @USITT 2012

If you are unable to get to USITT in Long Beach this year, our social media outlets will be a great way to experience the show remotely. For those of you unable to attend, our booth will feature a...

Joel Svendsen March 26, 2012 Questions?

Let The World Know About The Scenery or Props You've Built

And get some great swag from Rosco in return! Some truly innovative work is being done in scene and prop shops all over the country. Perhaps in your shop! We’d like to make that work more widely...

Joel Svendsen March 12, 2012 Questions?

Background Check - Staying Historically Accurate with Rosco Backdrops

For over twenty five years, Rosco Digital Imaging has been producing backdrops for movies, television and stage productions. During that time, they pioneered the technology to create...

Joel Svendsen February 27, 2012 Questions?

Creative Solutions In Lighting A Prop

For lighting designers, including the big time, Broadway-level guys, it isn’t always about the big rigs, moving lights and elaborate cue lists. It’s more about creative solutions…and knowing what’s...

Joel Svendsen September 12, 2011 Questions?

Spectrum Wavelengths: Something Borrowed, Something Blue

This Wavelengths post turns its attention to the color Blue and its current influence on Rosco and the world around us. Keep reading to learn about the 'Light it up Blue' campaign seen earlier this...

Joel Svendsen April 08, 2011 Questions?

Happy Holidays from Rosco Spectrum

Rosco LitePad helped add some holiday glow to an unloved Christmas ornament on our family Christmas tree this year. We have two vintage beeswax ornaments that were sent to us from family. Due to...

Joel Svendsen December 22, 2010 Questions?

Happy Halloween from Rosco Spectrum

When you work for Rosco, Halloween is the best holiday of the year! It's the one time of year we get to show off to all of the muggles (non-entertainment folk) what we do. When the cheapo fog...

Joel Svendsen October 28, 2010 Questions?

The Power of the Pigment

One of the key components needed in order to paint theatrical scenery is - SCENIC PAINT. With today's ever shrinking budgets - it gets harder and harder to justify (to others and maybe even to...

Jenny Knott October 01, 2010 Questions?