About White Light

Founded in 1971, White Light is now in its thirty-ninth year as one of the leading suppliers of lighting equipment to the entertainment and corporate-event industries.

Our heritage is in theatre: our first job was the transfer of The Rocky Horror Show from the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs to the Kings Road Theatre; even now, we regularly supply productions of the show!

We now supply equipment to shows of all types and scales, including some of the biggest shows in the West End, on tour and elsewhere in the world: Billy Elliot, Chicago, Grease, Les Miserables, Sister Act, We Will Rock You and many more.

We continue to provide lighting designers with the latest tools and technology to realise their visions for a show as we have done throughout our history, and to make that technology available to others working on smaller shows or to lower budgets. We remain as happy to supply two lights to a school play or fringe production as we are to supply a complete West End lighting rig.

Though many still think of us as a theatrical lighting hire company, our work now spreads far beyond that reaching into every area where lighting is used as part of entertainment. Our Sales team can offer everything from a single sheet of colour to a complete lighting rig - including installation, if required, and are the supplier of choice for projects as far away as Germany, Singapore and Macau. Our service engineers maintain and support dimmers, lighting desks and other equipment for theatres around the country either as required or through long-term service contracts.

We also offer a complete lighting service, where required, with our Corporate & Events Lighting team offering anything from equipment rental to design, specification, installation, crewing and operation, including taking care of health and safety and risk assessment documentation; one such project, the Christmas lighting at Painshill Park in Surrey, was the subject of a feature article in Country Life magazine.

Though our equipment stock is one of the most diverse and comprehensive in the business, we're also happy to create products if we can't find quite the right tool for the job. Our popular VSFX optical effect system is specified by lighting designers worldwide. Our new Snow Machine, developed for Billy Elliot, won an award at the 2008 LDI Show, and is now available for hire or sale.

All of these activities are serviced from our base in Wimbledon, south-west London, which offers 45,000 square feet of warehouse and equipment preparation space and 10,000 square feet of office space and also provides a home to a number of other companies working in various fields of the entertainment and corporate event industries industries. We also have an on-line store at www.lxstore.com.

The overall result is a multi-faceted company employing over 100 people and with an annual turnover approaching £10million, that covers every area of entertainment and corporate event lighting.

In these changing times - both at home and in the world at large - White Light provides a familiar touchstone offering superb service and support as it has done for almost four decades.