For the venues where the show must go on.
From major lyric theatres to regional performing arts centres, your stage infrastructure needs to be safe, compliant and ready when the curtain goes up. We keep your fly systems certified, your soft goods fire-retardant treatment current, and we're there when an urgent show-week callout can't wait.
From the foyer to the fly tower, one team has it.
A performing arts venue is a stack of systems that all have to work on the night - rigging, drapes, automation and the compliance that keeps them certified. Choose the format that matches your venue, then explore the solutions we deliver across it.
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One partner. From the first audit to the next recertification.
What theatre venues call us about.
Different building, same short list. These are the calls that turn into a quote inside the hour - and the reason we keep the report ready before you ask.
Our fly system hasn't been load-certified since the last manager left, and we open in three weeks.
Technical Director, regional PAC
I can't put a recert date on any of our drapes, and the fire inspector is already booked in.
Venue Manager, civic theatre
A bar dropped a cue mid-season. I need someone who can actually get here, not in three weeks.
Production Manager, community theatre
I've inherited a building full of rigging and no record of what is safe to put a load on.
Operations Manager, performing arts centre
We have one dark week in the calendar and a jobs list longer than the week.
Head of Production, drama school
Everything your venue touches, from one team.
Most of what runs above and around your stage, we cover. Hover or tap any capability to see how it shows up in your venue - listed in the order most venues meet us.
The paperwork your insurer asks for.
Your fly system, hoists and soft goods inspected and certified on a schedule built around your season - so the load cert is current and the documentation is ready before your insurer, council or opening night asks for it.
Nothing above the stage is a question mark.
Fly system inspections, hoist replacements and rigging refurbishments, engineered and certified to AS 4991. The bars your scenery and soft goods hang from, load-rated and signed off - so the rig holds every cue, every show.
Soft goods that stay FR-current.
House curtains, masking, cycs and scrims, built to your proscenium and fly bar measurements, FR-treated and recertified before the window lapses. New stock, hire stock, or recertifying the drapes you already run.
Upgrades that land inside the dark week.
Fly system upgrades, drape track replacements and full stage-systems fit-outs, programmed into your dark weeks and commissioned before the next get-in. New-build PAC or a thirty-year-old proscenium house, scoped, installed and signed off.
When off-the-shelf stops working.
When the show calls for a move the standard rig can't make - a tracking reveal, a flown set piece, a cue-driven scenic effect - we design and build the mechanism for the cue sheet you actually have.
Scenery built to strike clean and store.
Set construction, prop fabrication and scenic hardware built for the way your season runs - quick to get in, safe to fly, and engineered to strike clean and store between shows.
Extra kit for the show that needs it.
Extra masking, a few more hoists or a full touring package for one production - the same kit you'd buy, booked to your dates and delivered around your get-in and bump-out.
How it usually goes, start to finish.
Most theatre projects with TSA follow the same five-step shape. Mapped to your season, not ours.
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Step 01
Audit
Health check audit during the next dark week.
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Step 02
Report
Engineering report with prioritised remediation.
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Step 03
Quote
Quote covering supply, install and certification.
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Step 04
Deliver
Programmed delivery scheduled around your season.
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Step 05
Recertify
Annual recertification under the Service & Inspection Programme.
Explore the possibilities
before the project begins.
Our free planning tools are designed to support better conversations, whether that's around the boardroom table, in a project meeting or with our team. Use them to test ideas, understand options and build confidence in the path forward, or simply get in touch, we would be happy to help.
Questions theatre venues ask us most.
For venues on the Service & Inspection Programme, callout windows are short by design. For venues not yet on programme, we work the call against current technician load - most non-show-day callouts are scoped inside the working day. If it's show-day, we say so on the first call and route accordingly.
No. The Venue Systems Health Check is structured to work around your existing kit. We document the rig as found, flag anything that needs deeper review, and prioritise remediation against your season schedule. If teardown is required for any specific item, we'll book it separately.
Yes. Drapes and rigging sit under the same Service & Inspection Programme. A single visit covers FR-treatment recertification windows, fly system condition, hoist servicing, and drape track maintenance - one report, one schedule, one invoice.
Lifting and rigging work is delivered against AS 4991 and D8 Plus where applicable. Drape FR treatment is delivered against AS 1530. Electrical testing against AS/NZS 3760. Where a venue has insurer-specific requirements, we work to whichever standard is stricter.
That's the most common reason multi-venue operators ring us. A staged programme - same audit format, same report structure, same recertification cycle across every venue - gives operations a single picture and a single budget line. We've done this for cultural infrastructure portfolios and regional PAC networks.
Bring us the rig. We'll bring the report.
Tell us about your venue and your next dark week. We'll come back with a Health Check window and a programmed service path that works around your season.