Theatre Cue Player

Audio and video cue playback for live theatre. Projection mapping, second-screen output, cue sheets. Works offline.

Theatre Cue Player is show-control software for school and community theatre. It runs in Chrome, works offline, and is built for student operators on Chromebooks. Build a cue list, press GO, and your sound and video fire in order. It provides a unique opportunity for a classroom of students to learn the terminology, logic, and workflow of show-control software that immediately transfers to industry-standard professional applications. "Made for education. Powerful enough to run the show." AUDIO • One cue list and one GO button — a workflow a student can learn in a rehearsal • Overlapping playback, auto-follow, auto-continue and infinite loops • Fade cues, plus FADE ALL and STOP ALL for when something goes wrong • A hotkey grid for instant-fire sound effects • A built-in waveform editor for trimming and fading without leaving the app VIDEO AND PROJECTION • Video and image cues fired from the same cue list as your audio • Clean full-screen output to a projector or second monitor, black between cues • Projection mapping — corner-pin warp and masking onto set pieces and scrims, with multiple sources and surfaces available • Text cues: titles, supertitles, crawls and rolls SHOWS THAT TRAVEL • Save to a plain folder on the machine, or to your own Google Drive — your choice • Export a printable PDF cue sheet, or a Google Sheet for the stage manager • Package a whole show, media included, as a single zip file BUILT FOR SCHOOLS • Works offline once a show is open, so a dropped network cannot stop a performance • Help Mode locks the cue list so a student cannot edit it by accident • No account required. Google Drive is entirely optional — in folder mode the extension makes no network connections at all, which matters in districts where Drive is blocked • Choosing a file from Google Drive opens a small page on theatrecueplayer.app, so that address needs to be allowed through a school web filter along with Google. If it is blocked, everything else still works: pick the file from the computer instead (on a Chromebook, Google Drive is in the file dialog's sidebar) PRICING Free for the whole 2026–27 school year. After that there will be a fee for second-screen projection output only; audio-only shows stay free and video shows with watermark stay free. **NEW IN 2.5.0 — ADJUSTABLE FONT SIZE / HIDE AND ADJUST COLUMNS** Make the cue list as big, as small or as simple as the show needs. Widen, fit or hide columns, make the text up to twice the size, and space the rows out or pack them in. Hide everything but the cue numbers and names, turn the text up, and the cue list becomes a display a whole booth can read. • Drag the edge of a column heading to widen or narrow it, or double-click the edge to fit it to what is in it. Settings > Cue Table > Fit all sizes every column at once • Hide any column except Cue # and Cue Label, from Settings or by right-clicking its heading. Show all brings them back • Cue list text size up to 200%, and cell padding from Compact to Extra roomy • These settings are kept on each computer, so a Chromebook and a desktop can each suit their own screen • In Video mode, the cue inspector now shows every setting a cue's row has — delay, trims, fades, loop and the auto-continue and auto-follow choices — so a hidden column never hides a setting • The GO button stays in one place: Show Control now sits above Currently Playing, so the list of playing cues grows below it • The play, fade and stop buttons stay on screen when a wide cue list scrolls sideways, and the cue list's scrollbars always show • Escape closes Settings without stopping the show, clicking outside Settings closes it too, and no key fires a cue while Settings is open • Picture cues no longer offer trim, pan and loop boxes that had no effect on a still image **NEW IN 2.4.0 — FASTER TO BUILD, EASIER TO SHARE** Drag your sound and video files straight onto the cue list and each one becomes a cue, named after its file. Shows can now be opened, imported and exported through Google Drive, and Show > Save Show As makes a complete copy of a show. • Drag sound and video files onto the cue list: drop between two cues to add new ones, or onto a cue to give it a different file • Drag the Add Cue buttons into the list. A fade, stop, pause or resume dropped under a cue is aimed at that cue • A cue takes its file's name until you type one, and a name you typed is never changed • Save Show As makes a new show with its own copy of every sound and video it uses, so changing the copy never touches the original • In Google Drive mode, Load Cue File and Import a show can open from Drive, and Export Project to Zip can save to Drive • Big videos and sound files upload to Google Drive in smaller pieces, so a shaky connection is less likely to stop them • Sound Editor changes come back as a new numbered file, such as "Thunder (edit 2).wav", and the cue keeps its name • Purge Unused Media keeps any file that a saved backup of the cue list still uses • A file dropped outside the cue list no longer opens over your show • Fixed: making or importing a show with the same name as an existing show could overwrite it. Each show now needs its own name **NEW IN 2.3.0 — AUTOMATIC CUE LIST BACKUPS, and more** Theatre Cue Player now saves a copy of your cue list every time you open a show, and keeps the last 20. When the director asks to hear it the way it was yesterday, Show > Restore from Backup puts it back. Restoring saves a copy of what you have now first, so you can always change your mind. • Restore from Backup — return to any of the last 20 versions of your cue list • Save a Restore Point Now — mark a moment by hand before rearranging a lot of cues • Only your cue list is copied, never your sound and video files, so it stays small • Shows open faster, and now tell you what they are doing while they load • A cue that cannot play says so — red when the file is gone, amber when it is still saving to Drive — instead of looking ready and then staying silent • Importing a show, or opening one on a new computer, says "Still loading sound and video" across the top of the cue list, so cues waiting their turn no longer look like missing files • Save a Copy of the Cue List (was Save Cue File As) asks for a name, and in Google Drive mode lets you keep the copy in Drive, right next to the show • Load Cue File, Save a Copy and Import a show open in your shows folder, not in Downloads • Purge Unused Media asks again before deleting a file that has not finished saving to Drive, because that copy is the only one there is • Fixed: saving a copy of the cue list could rename the show's own file the next time the show saved • Fixed: settings kept beside your shows were ignored when you reconnected a saved folder, so things like FADE ALL duration quietly fell back to defaults Privacy policy: https://theatrecueplayer.app/privacy