The program
Community Theater.net
A new website in three acts
Built between Friday's and Saturday's performances
Cast in order of appearance
- Two Young Actors
- Themselves
- John Tripp
- The Guy Who Said “I Can Fix That”
- A Laptop
- Itself
- Coffee
- Understudy for Sleep
Act I A green room. Thursday, September 24, 2026.
Somewhere between places and the next entrance, two young actors are complaining. Audition notices are everywhere and nowhere: a Facebook group here, a newsletter there, a flyer on a lobby corkboard, half-covered by another flyer. By the time you hear about an audition, the cast list is already up.
JOHN, who should probably be running lines, looks up.
John. I can fix that.
Nobody in the room believes him. Blackout.
Intermission Friday, September 25.
After Friday night's show, John goes home and opens a laptop. By the end of the night there is a website that lists auditions. It is not a good website yet. It has potential, like a first read-through.
Act II Saturday, September 26.
John shows it to the rest of the cast, and they have notes: it should be for more than auditions. What about the shows themselves, the crew calls, the camps and classes? By Saturday's performance, CommunityTheater.net is up and running for our area with all of it, searchable by zip code.
The two young actors are informed. They are cautiously impressed.
Second intermission Saturday night, after the curtain call.
John goes home, still thinking about that corkboard. Do other towns have one too?
Act III The rest of the map. Every day since.
It turns out the complaint wasn't local. Every town with a community theater has the same corkboard, the same Facebook group, the same audition you hear about a day too late. So the site hits the road: Baltimore, Portland, Dallas, Denver, Atlanta, then Florida, Michigan and the Carolinas, town by town, until it covers every zip code in the United States.
A map of the country flies in. Most of it is still dark. Coffee goes on for Sleep, indefinitely.
Encore Still running.
Hundreds of theaters and counting.
We add a couple hundred more every day, one area at a time. If your area isn't here yet, search your zip code anyway: every search from a new area moves it up the list. See where we are so far.
Casting notes Who gets a listing.
This is a site for community theater: companies where local people audition, rehearse after work and school, and put on a show for their neighbors.
In the company
- Community theaters and little theaters
- Youth and children's theaters, including tuition-based companies that cast kids
- Non-Equity companies that pay their local actors, whether a stipend or a real wage
- Arts centers, parks departments and churches, when they produce their own shows with local casts and sell tickets to the public
- Their camps, classes, workshops and crew calls
Not in this show
- Equity and other union houses
- Companies that cast nationally and house their actors, union or not
- Touring shows, presenters and rental halls (we list the local companies that perform there instead)
- College and school theater departments, unless it's a program open to the whole community
- Dance studios, opera companies and orchestras
- Groups that have gone quiet, or that post only on Facebook, where we can't check for changes
If your company belongs here and we've missed it, post a listing and we'll add you.
Director's note
Every listing comes from the theater's own website, box office or audition page, and we keep checking those pages for changes. Theaters can also post their own auditions, shows, crew calls and classes. If something's wrong, every listing has a way to tell us.
Community theater runs on people who show up: to audition, to hang lights, to sew, to sell tickets, to sit in the dark and clap. This site just helps them find each other.
Any resemblance to a real green room is entirely intentional.