A cuelist platform built for theatre.
Annotate. Call. Perform.
PDF scripts annotated in layers. Cues called in real time across every device in the booth. Offline fallback when the venue Wi-Fi gives up. Built to stay up the night the show does.
01 · What it is
A working surface for the booth, not another planning tool.
Cuelist is the system stage managers, designers, and operators actually use to run a show — from script breakdown in tech to the GO of opening night. PDF in, cues out, every device in sync.
Annotate scripts in layers.
Lighting, sound, video, stage management, and any custom layer you define. Marks survive page revisions via SHA-256 anchoring — so when the script changes mid-tech, your cues don't disappear.
Call cues live, on every device.
Presence and follow-mode let the SM lead and operators shadow the call. Strict ordering, deterministic replay — GO means GO, every time.
Offline by default.
The booth is a basement. Cues queue locally, sync the moment the venue Wi-Fi remembers itself. Offline is the fallback, not the workaround.
Export the show.
Flatten to a PDF that any console operator can open without the app. Layers, cues, and page labels rendered as native PDF annotations.
02 · The booth view
What you see when the house lights go down.
A three-pane working surface: layers on the left, the script in the middle, the cue rail on the right. The next cue is highlighted. The current cue holds. The fired cue logs.
Mockup of the Cuelist booth view: a three-pane working surface with layers on the left, the script in the middle, and the cue rail on the right. Cue 47.5 is firing on the lighting layer with a 6-second fade.
03 · Built for
People who run shows.
Cuelist is opinionated about live performance. It refuses to dilute its language to capture adjacent markets — no "creative collaboration platform" framing, no Kanban-for-theatre.
"Standby cue 47…
Go."
- Stage ManagersSM
Call the show. Hold the cue rail. Own the night.
- Lighting DesignersLX
Annotate cue placement against the script. Ship clean exports to the console op.
- Sound DesignersSX
Layer fades, mutes, and music across pages. Export to the playback engine.
- Technical DirectorsTD
Run the org. Set RBAC. Audit who called what, when, and from which device.
Run the show.
The booth's working surface, finally written for it.