Script and blocking
- Import a script PDF; characters, acts, scenes, entrances and exits are found for you
- Blocking points anchored to the exact words, with moves, paths, facing and stage areas
- Set pieces scene by scene, including a different place in each scene, with the shift plot worked out
- Levels: below stage, basements and fly floors as floors of one building, with joined stairs and crossovers drawn floor by floor
- Precise or sketch stage maps with walls, exits, a library of furniture and set pieces by scene
- Animated blocking timed to the words, watched from any seat, with scene changes
- Blocking snapshots, “what changed since”, and a replay of how each moment changed
- Relining: blocking, cues and notes move to the right place when a new script version arrives
Cues and calling
- Cue types with prefixes and colors; cues on trigger words
- Calling mode with warn, standby and GO, and saved calling logs
- Calling script with cues boxed on the real pages
- Calling load time line with busy stretches and tight calls
- Practice calling against the script or a real run, with early and late feedback
- Tech change log for each department
- Cue-to-cue view and Show night console with tonight’s estimated times
- Renumber many cues at once with a before-and-after list
Rehearsals
- Notes for actors from any rehearsals, one page per person, ready to hand out
- Rehearsal notebooks, quick line notes and voice notes
- Line runs with off-book progress and a forecast to the Off book date
- Run timer, running-time trend and forecast to opening
- Breaks and hours limits (including minors) with a rehearsal clock
- Rehearsal video linked from your computer and synced to the script
- Actor waiting time and a better scene order
- Give notes with every note in one list, or one at a time
- Working-hours reminders for your own rules: daily and weekly limits, breaks, rest between calls and young performers
Schedule and company
- Rehearsal schedule with calls worked out from the scenes
- Conflicts, absences and late arrivals
- Planner that builds a rehearsal plan to your milestones
- Company, auditions, casting board and callbacks
- Email templates with each person’s calls and notes, opened as drafts in your own email program
- Actor tool: each actor’s calls, notes, blocking, script pages and line learning, on their own device
- Pronouns, parent and guardian contacts, and private medical notes kept off every other report
Production paperwork
- Design board, shift plot, costume plot, fittings, props list, inventory and loans, budget
- Prop tables drawn to scale; floor tape-out and spike-mark plans
- Dresser tracks and quick-change planning
- Pre-show checklist with reference photos
- Repair list from show reports
- Incident reports with a body diagram
- Venue and safety details, contact sheets and emergency contacts
- One follow-up list across departments, with owners and due dates
Checks and insight
- Continuity checks with one-click fixes: jumps, missing entrances, doubling, cue numbering
- Sightlines from any seat, a sightline heat map and masking checks
- Collision checks and moves through furniture
- Insights: who carries the play, running time by scene, French scenes, stage picture and variety
- Character arcs and the show timeline
Running the theatre
- Box office: import sales from any ticketing system (CSV or Excel), with column matching remembered; sales, will-call lists and house counts
- Volunteers and ushers: shifts for every performance, sign-up sheets and volunteer hours
- Rights and royalties: license details, payments, materials to return and required billing credits
- Grant and donor report: audience, participation, hours and budget gathered for you
- Marketing kit: posters, social images, a flyer and a press release with a ticket QR code
- Auditions: sides from the script pages and an audition form, printed or on the web
- Build and strike: a build list with a materials estimate, build calls and a strike checklist
- Lights and sound: instrument schedule, channel hookup, magic sheet, circuit loads and a mic plot
- Backstage display: tonight’s calls and running order as an image, a PDF or live on a second screen
- Show night holds and show stops, with running time with and without holds
Audience and access
- Program builder: print, a phone-friendly web page and a QR poster
- Caption and surtitle files (.vtt, .srt, .csv)
- Audio description notes
- Content and sensory warnings with a lobby notice
- Front-of-house sheet
Learning theatre as you go
- A Learn switch that underlines theatre words on each screen, with a short meaning on hover and the full article one click away
- A Learn panel for every screen: what it is for, the theatre idea behind it, how to use it and common mistakes
- A built-in Theatre guide: 15 chapters for people new to theatre, 136 theatre words and a guide to every screen, with pictures, search and printing
- A “What is this?” link on every report that explains the form and who uses it
Printing and sharing
- More than 80 reports, with a print preview that matches the printed pages exactly
- Your production look on every report: logo, show colors, fonts, headers and footers
- One size control with Fewer pages and Fill the pages
- A report designer for your house style
- A complete prompt-book binder with a cover, contents and tabbed dividers
- Print or save as PDF, web page, Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx) or spreadsheet
- Department copies, slim copies, archive packages and free Viewer copies
- Production portfolio page
Ease of use
- Your own workspaces: the screens you use, in your order, with your headings
- Dashboards on Home: ready-made ones for rehearsal days, tech week and show night, or your own with widgets you add, move and resize
- Favorites: star screens, reports, Help topics and Theatre guide articles
- One right-click menu in the script for notes, cues, blocking, quick notes and line notes
- Each screen remembers how you left it; a ⚙ on every screen opens its settings, and Settings has a search
- Turn off features a production doesn’t use, or start from a view mode (a play, a musical, one person does it all, school, touring, professional)
- Notes for the developer from any screen or right-click, sent as one package by email
- Works offline; each production is one file on your computer
- Quick add: type a cue, note, prop, rehearsal or milestone
- Jump to anything (Ctrl+K), find and replace, advanced search
- Workspaces by role, guides and tours on every screen, a sample production
- Autosave, automatic backups, recycle bin and undo history
- Tablet and pencil mode
- Light, dark, high contrast and booth themes; easier-reading font; reduced motion; custom shortcuts
- Optional AI assistant with your own AI service
- Spanish, French and German for the main screens (beta)
- Merging two copies shows who changed what before anything changes
- Feedback: report a problem or suggest an improvement, seeing exactly what will be sent