In theaters, a batten (also known as a bar or pipe) is a long metal pipe suspended above the stage or audience from which lighting fixtures, theatrical...

Batten (surname), for people named Batten Batten (car), a British automobile produced in the 1930s Batten (theater), a horizontal pole from which lights...

proscenium theaters, drapes are typically suspended from battens and can be controlled by a fly system (i.e., they are "flown," in theater terminology)...

fly (raise and lower) a slender beam (typically a steel pipe) known as a batten (or a bar in the UK) by hoisting it with lift lines (typically synthetic...

later steel) grid above the stage supported pulleys from which wooden battens, and later steel pipes, rolled down, or descended, with attached scenery...

openings into the auditorium from the ceiling. Most catwalks have several battens (pipes) that lighting fixtures may be attached to. Lights are usually attached...

ordinary batten would not qualify as spot rigging; flying a chandelier on a dedicated line would be. Likewise, if a wall were being flown in on a batten which...

pleats like a traditional theater curtain, but it still gathers from the bottom in a number of swags. The waterfall has a pipe batten along the bottom edge...

The Golden Rondelle Theater is a historic theater currently located in the administration complex of S. C. Johnson & Son in Racine, Wisconsin. Featuring...

better critical reception. A year later, they released Live! @ The Granada Theater, the band's first and only live album. Later that year, the band broke...