Mike Baldassari Shares The Origin Story Of R381 – His Namesake Blue

Lighting Designer Mike Baldassari describes how he worked with Rosco to create R381 Baldassari Blue in order to solve a common lighting design issue.

Orchestrating Light With Designer Mike Baldassari

With a career spanning 30 years of lighting for theater, rock shows, television, film and almost any other medium you can imagine, Mike Baldassari…

Don’t Stop Believing — Rock Of Ages Keeps On Rockin’!

Mention must be made of the colorful, high-impact, in-your-face lighting designed by Mike Baldassari that deserves a standing ovation of its own!

'Ghostbusters' Calls In LD Mike Baldassari for Heavy Metal Concert Scene

An article for the reboot version of Ghostbusters, which opened on July 15, 2016, director Paul Feig brought together a new team of Ghostbusters in…

AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER: Remixing Fellini

The lavish musical Nine, photographed by Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS, pays homage to Fellini’s landmark film 8 1/2.

Jack Outside The Box

Lighting designer Mike Baldassari likes to keep things interesting, lighting Broadway one week and Saturday Night Live the next. He moves from one…

Recreating the Looks for ‘Stop Making Sense’

Widely considered one of the best concert films ever made, Demme used the live performances to really showcase the band’s music and their highly…

Phish's 25 Minutes Of Madness With David Gallo

Since 1992, jam band Phish has pulled a stunt during every one of their New Year's Eve performances.

LD Mike Baldassari Lights “Rock of Ages” Concert Scenes

Lighting designer, Mike Baldassari was tasked with recreating the evolution of rock-n-roll lighting.

Lighting U2 on Top of the Rock; Quick Cues, More

U2 harnessed the beauty of the New York City skyline glimmering on a wintery night as their panoramic set.

Video: Cabaret Transforms Studio 54 Into Kit Kat Club

Watch the time-lapse of Studio 54 being transformed for the Roundabout Theatre Company production of Cabaret.

14 Different Lighting Plots for One Fastastic Movie

Taking on a project with such high expectations, Marshall turned to acclaimed director of photography Dion Beebe to help fulfill his vision. Beebe…

Neil Young rocking in a postmodern world

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - When Neil Young's Chrome Dreams Tour stopped in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday for the first of two nights at the…

From PLSN: ETC Eos Gets Lucky with 13

LOS ANGELES — When Mike Baldassari took on the new musical 13 at L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum in December, he collaborated with a director he had never…

Neil Young, craftsman and his tools

Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times

Mike Baldassari: Mr. Versatility

Lighting designer Mike Baldassari has built a uniquely successful career working across many disciplines; Broadway, film, television, concerts,…

From LIVE DESIGN: Projection Toolbox: Projections Unchained (with Pictures)

Article by the excellent Projection Designer/Writer Zachary G. Borovay about the Fall 2006 Alice in Chains tour. One of the first to use the DL-2…

Molto Perfecto!

Nine Combines Theatrical Lighting And Cinematography In A Tribute To Federico Fellini

ETC Eos Lights 13, Mark Taper Forum

Mike Baldassari likes the challenge of the new.

Talkin' Broadway -review of NERDS://A Musical Software Satire

By Tim Dunleavy

Mike's quotes in the NY Times ON LANGUAGE Column

ON LANGUAGE; Plugged In To Broadway Break a leg, knock 'em in the aisles, stage-door Johnny, stage mother, stage-struck, twofer, understudy. . .much…

First Date On Broadway

First Date started previews this month at Broadway's Longacre Theatre, with a creative team that includes scenic and media designer David Gallo,…

Regional Reviews: Philadelphia - Nerds://A Musical Software Satire

Nerds is a musical that purports to tell the story of how the computer business has developed over the past thirty years, but its tone is so…

New York Magazine review of CABARET

Sweet and Sour Dancing despite the Nazis, the tawdry chorines of "Cabaret" provide a bracing alternative to "The Sound of Music"'s…

LEDs Magazine article about "BEAUTY & THE BEAST"

Lagotronics provides "wireless" LEDs for stage show 8 Dec 2005 Lagotronics has used wireless DMX to control LED lighting and special effects…

CurtainUP review of CABARET after 1000 performances

A CurtainUp Review Cabaret

Live Design Magazine article about TELEVISION CITY

TV dinners: LD Mike Baldassari prepares a light menu for Manhattan's Television City Sep 1, 1997 12:00 PM, Robert Cashill

Talkin' Broadway review of "13"

Los Angeles by Sharon Perlmutter 13

CurtainUP review of BARE

A CurtainUp Review Bare, a Pop Opera By Jenny Sandman

The New York Times review of SAVION -Downtown

DANCE REVIEW; Footwork That Digs To the Heart Of the Music By JENNIFER DUNNING Published: April 26, 1999

NEIL YOUNG: Long May He Run. Concert Review from the LA Times

The veteran performer takes a Nokia crowd on an acoustic journey, then turns up the volume. By Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer November…