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Your season, in front of people looking for a show.

PlayhouseFinder lists 2,826 productions playing now or coming up from 687 theaters, from Broadway and touring houses to community, youth and children's theaters, so that a family in the next town, or a visitor on the road, finds yours. It is free, it always will be, and you can claim your page today.

How your listings get here

We read your published season from your own website or ticketing system, the same page your audience sees. Where a site offers structured data (schema.org events, a WordPress events feed, Spektrix, Tessitura, OvationTix, Ludus or a sitemap of show pages) we use that; otherwise we read the page text. Every listing records the page it came from, links to it, and shows the date it was last checked. We re-read every source weekly and pick up changes automatically.

Each production is listed as one run, with its opening and closing dates, the performance schedule, and the individual performances when you publish them. Descriptions on our production pages are written by us from the facts on your page; we never copy your copy. Ticket links go straight to your box office with nothing in between.

Claim your page

A member of your staff can manage your theater's page. Theater staff can edit the theater's own description and ticket link, answer audience questions in "Ask the regulars" and reply to audience impressions of your shows, marked as from the theater, correct a production listing, add photos and playbills, and are the first people we write to when something on a listing looks off. Open your theater's page and choose Claim this page, or write to us.

Send us a feed (optional)

If you would rather push your season than have us read it, publish a JSON file at any URL and tell us where it is. The format is small on purpose:

{
  "theater": "Example Community Players",
  "updated": "2026-09-04",
  "productions": [
    {
      "title": "Into the Woods",
      "kind": "musical",
      "credits": "Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; book by James Lapine",
      "opens": "2026-10-09",
      "closes": "2026-10-26",
      "schedule": "Thu–Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm",
      "performances": [
        {"start": "2026-10-09T19:30:00-05:00"},
        {"start": "2026-10-11T14:00:00-05:00"}
      ],
      "venue": "Main Street Playhouse, 100 Main St, Springfield, IL",
      "director": "Jane Doe",
      "cast": [{"name": "John Roe", "role": "The Baker"}],
      "family_friendly": true,
      "audience": "Ages 8+",
      "tickets": "https://tickets.example.org/into-the-woods",
      "url": "https://example.org/shows/into-the-woods"
    }
  ]
}

Dates are ISO 8601 with an offset. Anything you leave out we fill from your page. We will publish a full specification and an embeddable widget once a few theaters are using it; if you want to be one of them, say hello.

What audiences get

Shows within any radius of any place, a Kids & family page for parents, a trip planner that finds shows along a route, follows for theaters, shows, writers and performers, and a community of people who mark that they are going and say how it was. All of it free, for life.

Opening Season Members who join by August 31, 2027 keep the Opening Night Member badge forever, and every September 1 everyone moves up a billing: Audience Member, Usher, Understudy, Ensemble, Featured Player, Supporting Lead, Leading Player, Stage Manager, Director, Producer. The ranks