CueTheShow Open the console

Run your show's music and subtitles from a laptop or a phone

CueTheShow is a free cue console for live theatre and dance. Your music becomes a numbered cue list with one big GO button. Your script becomes clean subtitles for the projector. No account, no install, and nothing you load ever leaves your device.

Open the console

Free, open source, works offline. It runs in the browser you already have: the full console on a laptop, a soundboard in your pocket on a phone.

The CueTheShow console mid-show: subtitle preview on the left, music cues with a GO button on the right The same console on a phone, as a music soundboard

Three tools that behave like one operator

Use the half you need, or both together. The console starts in music mode because that is where most shows start.

Music

One GO button, clean fades

Drop in your audio files and they become numbered cues. GO fires the next one with a proper fade. Tracks can crossfade, play on top of each other, follow each other after a delay, or dip the background score while an effect plays and let it swell back. A cue can even change its own level partway through, so music settles under dialogue while your hands are busy elsewhere.

Subtitles

From script to screen

Feed it your script as a PDF or pasted text. It becomes short, readable cues that never split a sentence across two screens. One key advances them on the projector. Surtitles for a translated play, done without slides.

Together

Music that knows the script

Tie a song to a line of dialogue. When you advance the subtitles to that line, the console fires the music for you, or clearly reminds you it is ready and waits for your GO. You stay in control.

Built for show night

  • A second screen in seconds. Any browser on any machine can become your display: it shows a 4-letter code, you type it in, done.
  • Works with no internet. Download the offline copy once and the whole console runs from a file. Venue wifi is never part of your show.
  • A fallback for the fallback. Export your subtitles as a plain PDF deck, one cue per page, that any computer can present. And the cue sheet prints on paper.
  • A phone is a soundboard. Open it on your phone, plug into the speakers, and run the music from your hand.
The projector output: white subtitle text on a black screen
The opening screen: each show on its own card

Yours, and only yours

  • No accounts, no cloud. Your script and audio stay on your machine. There is nothing to sign up for because there is nothing to sign up to.
  • Every show on its own card. Keep several productions side by side, lock one against accidental edits, and carry a whole show to another laptop as a single file.
  • Free and open source. MIT licensed. Use it, share it, change it.

Ready when you are

It opens in the browser you are reading this in. Add a music file or a script and you are running cues in a minute.

Open the console