stage management for theatre + live performance
Stage management software with a real cue engine, not a glorified spreadsheet.
CueHound is the stage management, prompter, and cue-dispatch platform for professional theatre, off-Broadcast and regional houses, opera, dance, and live performance. The same rundown your SM uses backstage is the same rundown the lighting console reads cues from over MIDI MSC and the audio console reads via OSC. No paper script with hand-written GO marks; no separate cue book; no out-of-sync revivals when the director cuts a scene.
problems we hear
What theatre crews tell us — and what CueHound does about it.
"The SM calls the show off a paper prompt-book that the director keeps editing."
Producer and SM share a real-time CRDT rundown. Director's edits land instantly in the SM's calling-script view; the cue book exports as PDF on demand.
"Cue numbers drift between the prompt-book, the lighting console, and the audio rig."
Cue IDs are first-class. MIDI MSC fires the lighting console; OSC fires the audio console; the prompt-book SM display and the desks all reference the same canonical cue list.
"Mid-run, the director cuts a scene and now eight cue numbers have to be re-numbered everywhere."
Cue numbering is logical, not positional. Cuts and inserts re-number the calling list visually but preserve the canonical cue IDs the consoles already loaded.
"An SM goes off mid-run and a substitute has to call from a binder they've never seen."
Show Caller mode is single-hand, with giant ACTIVE / NEXT cards and Space-bar GO. A trained substitute can pick up the show inside one act with zero binder.
built for the theatre workflow
What you actually get.
Calling script view
SM-first surface — script left, cue strip right, Q-out / Q-in markers, standby colour states. Designed to read at low light from the SM's calling position.
MIDI MSC + OSC native
MIDI Show Control commands map cleanly to lighting console go-cues. OSC dispatches to QLab (via Companion in v1, native in v2), audio consoles, and media servers in the same beat as the lighting cue.
Voice-paced teleprompter for narrators
Off-Broadway and theatre-in-education productions running narrators or pre-show announcements get the same voice-paced prompter the broadcast prompter ships with.
integrates with
- MIDI MSC (ETC Eos, MA Lighting, Hog 4)
- OSC (QLab, audio consoles, media servers)
- Bitfocus Companion (Stream Deck cue calling)
- OBS WebSocket (livestream of the run)
- MIDI MMC (audio recording rigs)
built for
- · Resident SM at a regional house
- · Production SM on a touring show
- · Off-Broadway technical director
- · Conservatory / drama-school teaching SM
Bring theatre into one window.
Start free, upgrade when the show needs it. Cancel by doing nothing.