What's new

Your theater history, now a full dashboard

  • Every show you log now rolls up into a dashboard that’s entirely your own. Shows by year, the cities you go to most, Broadway vs. Off-Broadway vs. regional, and the shows you’ve seen more than once — all in one place, at a glance.
  • And the part no other app can do: the performers and creative teams you’ve seen most. Recast knows who was on stage the nights you were there, so it can tell you that you’ve caught one actor in four different shows, or followed a director’s work across a decade — even the swing you saw years ago who’s a lead now.
  • It lives on your profile at recast.show/u/[yourname]. Private by default, with a toggle to share. See an example.

A shareable theater passport

  • Turn your stats into a beautiful passport made for sharing — a vertical card sized perfectly for Instagram, with your shows, years, cities, and your most-seen show and performer.
  • It’s always current: share it today, share it again after your next ten shows, and it re-pulls your latest numbers every time. Download it or send it straight to Instagram and the rest, right from your history page.

Have years of theater-going already? We’ll import it

  • Been keeping track of the shows you’ve seen for years — in another app, a spreadsheet, or your head? Don’t worry about starting over. We’ll work with you to get every last one into Recast, by hand, so it lands perfectly.
  • It’s a bespoke, handcrafted process — matched to the exact production and performance, never duplicated. Learn about importing your history or reach out through the contact form and we’ll take it from there.

The whole program is now on Recast — not just the cast

  • This is the big one. Recast used to track who was on stage. Now it tracks everyone who made the show. The full creative team. The orchestra. Crew and staff. Producers, co-producers, executive producers. The entire kit and caboodle — everything you'd read in a printed program, now a permanent record.
  • Every show page has a Credits tab laid out like a real title page: Cast, Creative Team, Orchestra, Crew & Staff, and Producers, each in its own section with the right nomenclature. From the director down to the production assistant, from the lead producer down to the associate lighting designer — they all have a place.
  • See it in action on Schmigadoon — the whole company, top to bottom, exactly as it should read.

LinkedIn for theater: build a portfolio of everything you've done

  • If you work in this industry, in any role, Recast is now the one place to build the complete record of your career. Not just actors — directors, designers, stage managers, music directors, dramaturgs, producers, co-producers, investors. Anyone whose name belongs in a program.
  • Your profile becomes a living portfolio that grows with you, credit by credit. Broadway, Off-Broadway, the West End, regional, a tour, a workshop — it all lives in one place under your name. Credits from both sides of the Atlantic, sitting side by side. It doesn't matter where you worked or how your career has grown; the portfolio keeps up.
  • Add your own non-acting credits straight from your profile — pick how you were involved, and it lands in the right section of that show's program with the correct title. There is nothing else like this. It is the one true source of record for the people who make theater.

Companies get profiles too

  • A producing company, a general management office, a design studio — they aren't people, and now they don't have to pretend to be. Claim a profile as a company and every show you've been part of collects under one roof.
  • KGM Theatrical is a live example — a full company portfolio, every production in one place.

A top-to-bottom redesign — prettier, cleaner, and faster

  • Recast got a complete visual overhaul. A calm paper canvas, clean borderless cards, names that read like names and link in blue wherever they appear. Every page is more legible, more confident, and easier to move through.
  • A new two-bar navigation up top puts shows, people, and search a single tap away from anywhere on the site.
  • And it's faster. Pages are built to load instantly and stay fast — even on the lousy cell signal at the back of the mezzanine.

Stats and charts throughout

  • The Shows and People pages have been rebuilt as real directories — searchable, browsable A-to-Z, and topped with at-a-glance stats: how many shows, how many performers, how many performances on the record and counting.
  • Show and performance pages now carry social proof too — viewer counts and performance tallies that make the size of the record visible. The numbers tell their own story, and the story keeps getting bigger.

Today's curtain, in one place

  • A new Playing page (recast.show/playing) shows everything on a stage today — the day's calendar at a glance. Open it before you head to the theater and see exactly what's up tonight.
  • Every show and performance page also has a Share button now — no account needed. See a cast you want to send to a friend, tap, send.

“Also on tonight” — swings and understudies, captured

  • Theater runs on its swings and understudies, and now the record honors them. When a performer went on in addition to the listed cast — covering a track, swinging into the ensemble — you can mark them on for that exact performance.
  • Verified performers and moderators can record it instantly; everyone else can suggest it, and a moderator confirms. Either way, the people who actually saved the show that night stop disappearing from history.

Recast is an app now — put it on your home screen

  • Recast installs straight to your phone, iPhone or Android. No App Store, no download wait. It opens full-screen like any other app — the browser bars vanish and you're one tap from your profile or tonight's cast.
  • On iPhone: open recast.show in Safari, tap the Share button, then "Add to Home Screen." (It has to be Safari — Chrome and the others on iPhone can't do it.)
  • On Android: open recast.show in Chrome and tap "Install" when the banner slides up — or pick "Add to Home Screen" from the ⋮ menu.
  • Built for the back of the mezzanine: it caches what it can, so it still opens fast on lousy theater cell signal.

Filter the shows page to find exactly the one you want

  • The shows page is now a card grid you can filter on the fly. Narrow by status — Now playing, Upcoming, or Closed — to see only what's running tonight, or everything that's ever played.
  • Filter by venue type too: Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and the rest. Stack it with status and you've dialed right in — "Broadway shows playing now" is two taps.
  • It's instant. Every filter runs right in your browser, no page reloads, so flipping between views is immediate.

Rotating roles, finally handled the right way

  • Some shows don't have one Phantom. Immersive productions like Masquerade rotate several performers through the same role night to night; shows like Billy Elliot and Matilda share their lead roles across a pool of kids. Recast now understands this instead of forcing one name into the slot.
  • Roles that rotate get a "rotates at certain performances" tag and list the whole pool — everyone who shares the part — right on the cast list.
  • And nobody in a rotation gets falsely marked "out." If we don't yet know which performer was on a given night, we show all of them rather than guess. When you do know, you can record who was on for that exact performance.

QR codes — for resumes, lobbies, and everything in between

  • Every actor profile now has a "Download QR code" button. Tap it and you get a print-quality PNG with the Recast logo in the center. Put it on your resume. Someone scans it; they land on your full performance history. Instant digital portfolio.
  • Every show page has one too. Theater companies: print it and post it in the lobby. "Scan for tonight's full cast list." No app, no login, works on any phone.

YouTube videos on actor profiles

  • Add up to 6 YouTube videos to your profile — showreels, performance clips, interviews, whatever you want people to see. Paste any YouTube share link (the youtu.be/... kind or the full watch URL) and it's done.
  • Videos load as thumbnails and play in a popup window, so your profile stays fast even on bad theater cell service.

Representation, actually organized

  • The old representation field was one text box. Actors were cramming "Manager: X · Agency: Y · Commercial: Z" into a single line and it looked like a ransom note.
  • Now you get three structured slots — name, type (theatrical agent, manager, voiceover agent, whatever fits), agency, and email. Click an agent's email and it opens directly in your mail app.
  • Raymond Lee — one of the first performers on Recast — gave us this feedback in a call this morning. It was live by afternoon.

Edit profile and Add a credit: both visible at the top

  • Previously, the "Edit profile" button was small gray text sitting below your photo. Easy to miss.
  • Now there are two clearly-labeled buttons at the top of your profile the moment you're signed in: Edit profile (bio, photos, videos, representation) and Add a credit (your show history). No more scrolling to the bottom to discover anything.

Audiences can now log the shows they've seen

  • Every performance page now has an "I saw this" button. Tap it and that performance is logged to your viewing history — date, show, who was on that night.
  • Your history lives on your profile at recast.show/u/[yourname]. By default it's private; there's a toggle to make it public if you want to share it.
  • Share to Instagram is built in too. After logging a show you get a shareable image — cream paper, ink type, the cast you saw. Recast is tagging along to your theater habit in the best way possible.

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