Leading TV lighting designer Martyn Rourke specified 40 Robe moving lights for the intense final of Wawffactor – the Welsh edition of Pop Idol – recorded and broadcast live from Studio 1, The Media Centre in Cardiff for S4C.

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Investment

10.4.2026

De Leest Rolls with Large Robe Investment

Theater De Leest in Waalwijk, the Netherlands, is a contemporary cultural centrepiece of the city and its surrounding region, which opened in 1996. A major refurbishment 10 years ago saw the addition of the ‘new’ 200 capacity black box theatre hall complete with a retractable seating system, making it a flexible space, which, together with the existing 520-seater main auditorium, offers a vibrant programme of musicals, concerts, cabaret, family shows, opera, dance, youth theatre, and film screenings.

Exhibition

7.4.2026

Robe at MIR Rimini

Moving light manufacturer Robe s.r.o. will be making a big impact at MIR next week, launching four important new products – LEDBeam 200, Arianne6, T3 Profile FS, and T10 MFS – on Booth 01, Hall A5C5, as part of Italian distributor RM Multimedia’s large stand at the three-day trade show, staged at the Rimini Expo Centre, Italy.

Investment

2.4.2026

Endla Theatre Re-Energises with Robe

Endla Theatre in Pärnu, Estonia, has reinvested in Robe LED products across its two performance halls as part of a wider conversion to LED lighting, related to the Estonian “Green Turn” initiative. This has seen 16 of the country’s major theatres – a mix of local government and private performing arts institutions – convert lighting stock from tungsten-halogen to LED over the last 12 months.

Theatre

31.3.2026

Peter Pan Flies with Luz Studio & Robe

Montreal-based Luz Studio, headed by Matthieu Larivée, was asked by producers Entourage to create a visual design for their staging of Peter Pan the Musical at the city’s Espace St-Denis theatre. It was the first time that this famous fairytale musical had been presented there and in Quebec, and the challenge was to ensure that all the adventure and charm of the original story were replicated in a more contemporary setting.