Plenty of children follow in their father's footsteps. Few do so on 8-inch-wide steel beams as high as 120 feet in the air. Ted Caldwell, 58, began working in the concert industry as a rigger in the ...

The riggers were back at 8 a.m. Friday, and by mid-morning, the stage was being snapped together like a giant erector set in the middle of the arena floor. After some “persuasion” directed toward a ...

It’s a little dizzying to hear Nicolás Potere describe the high-flying work he does. A concert rigging professional of 12 years, he knows a lot about cables, anchors and safety lines, and their safest ...

They’re the people nobody thinks about: the riggers, the sound men, the lighting technicians, the ones who build the stages. The first ones in — the last ones out. On the day of a show, they are on ...

It was the energy and conviviality of live events that originally drew Seattle native Kyle Daley to transform sleepy towns and empty venues into theatrical spectacles. Over nearly a decade, the ...