Theater & Performing Arts Websites, Subscriptions & Booking
A performing-arts organization's audience is built over decades, one subscriber at a time, and it deserves better than a checkout that looks like an airline's. Subscribers want their seats held, their exchanges easy, and their curtain time on their phone. Donors want to be recognized. New audiences want it to be simple.
We build the theater's site and booking around the patron: seasons, single tickets, exchanges, donations and memberships in one account, with the curtain time, the understudy note and the intermission announcement reaching the phone in the seat.
- Your appnowCurtain in 20 minutesLate seating at intermission only. Coat check is on the mezzanine.
- Your app2d agoYour seats are heldOrchestra F 12–13 for the spring season, held until Friday. Renew in one tap.
- Your app5h agoTonight's castThe role of Emilia is played by the understudy this evening.
The gap between the ticket and the gate
What goes wrong now, and what the fan never hears about.
Subscription renewals happen by mailed form and a phone call to the box office
Exchanges and holds mean an email thread with the box office
Patrons hear about an understudy or a runtime change from the lobby sign
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Two ways to do it for theaters & performing arts.
Both end with the fan holding a ticket in your app and hearing from you the moment something changes. They differ in who sells the seat and who pays the fee.
Connect what you already sell on
Keep the ticketing platform your fans know. We build the site and the app around it — pulling live inventory, pushing real-time updates, and owning the fan relationship the platform never gives you.
- Live availability and pricing on your own pages, not a redirect
- Fan accounts, notifications and history that are yours, whichever platform sold the seat
- Presales, waitlists and announcements under your brand
- One place for the fan; the platform stays behind the scenes
Best when the platform's reach matters more than its fees, or a contract runs for years yet.
Own the booking end to end
A booking web application, iOS and Android apps, and a back office you control. No per-ticket fee to a middleman, no fan data held by someone else, no waiting on a platform to add the feature you need.
- Seat maps, general admission, tables, passes and season packages
- Checkout with cards, wallets and installment options
- Real-time push to every phone the moment something changes
- Scanning, entry, and reporting built for your doors, not a generic venue
Best when fees are eating the margin, or the fan relationship is the business.
The fan app
What the phone does for theaters & performing arts.
iOS and Android, built from one scope, with a back office your team runs from the office or from the floor. The first list is specific to your kind of event; the second is in every build.
- Tessitura
- Spektrix
- AudienceView
- Etix
- Eventbrite
- Ticketmaster
Platforms these businesses commonly sell through. Naming them says what we connect to, not that they endorse us.
- For theaters & performing arts
- Season subscriptions with seat holds, renewals and exchanges
- Reserved seating with an accurate house map and price zones
- Donations and memberships in the same account as tickets
- Curtain, cast and runtime updates to the patrons in the house
- Group, student and rush tickets with their own rules
- Reporting the development office and the box office can both read
- In every build
- Real-time push notifications — presales, gate times, delays, changes
- Tickets in the app, on the wallet, and scannable offline
- Live seat maps and availability, updated the moment a seat moves
- Accounts that remember the fan: seats, history, favorites, payment
- Transfer and resale under your rules and your fee
- A back office for pricing, holds, comps, scanning and reports
Start now. Pay monthly. Add nothing for interest.
Put 25% down at signing and spread the rest in equal monthly payments. The total you pay is the price on the proposal.
- Up to 12 months on any project
- 24 months from $15,000
- 36 months from $20,000
Financed projects are hosted on the DataCram platform for the length of the plan.
Questions
Theaters & Performing Arts, answered.
Not necessarily. Tessitura and similar systems can stay as the system of record while the patron-facing site and app become yours. Whether to replace it is a question of fees, contract and features, and we lay out both routes with numbers.
Yes. Membership tiers carry benefits — presale windows, waived fees, lounge access — that apply automatically at checkout and show in the patron's account.
No. The first path keeps it. We build the site and app to read its live inventory and sell through it, while the fan account, notifications and marketing become yours. Many clients start there and move to their own booking later, once the fan base is in the app.
Your team posts an update once — from the back office or a phone — and it reaches every fan who holds a ticket for that event within seconds, on iOS and Android, with a copy by email or text for anyone without the app. Updates can be scheduled, targeted by section or ticket type, and triggered automatically by events like a presale opening.
Card processing, hosting, and app store accounts in your name — that is the running cost. There is no per-ticket platform fee, which for most venues is the entire reason to do it. We show you the break-even against your current fees before you decide.
Yes. Owning the booking does not mean leaving the listings. Events can still be listed where fans discover them, with the purchase happening on your own system. Discovery and checkout are separate decisions.
A site connected to your existing platform is weeks. An owned booking web app is a few months; adding the iOS and Android apps runs alongside it. Every project is fixed-price and phased, so you can launch the web booking first and add the apps when the numbers say so.
Tell us how you sell tonight. We’ll show you both paths with numbers.
What you pay in fees now, what each path costs to build and run, and the monthly payment if you finance it. Usually within days, not weeks.