If you're struggling to coordinate the shows you want to see in the January theatre festivals (The Exponential Festival, Under the Radar, Prototype!), I am happy to now share my 2026 planning site.
The code was almost entirely written with Claude's Haiku 4.5 by using the chat in Visual Studio Code, but the site itself doesn't have any AI.
Changes from last year's version (here's a history that also covers my methodology) include:
- Shows are on the left and time is on the right
- Time slots are now a horizontal grid
- You can export your schedule as an importable .ics file, CSV, or txt file
- "Not Interested" has been replaced with a "hide" option, when you click "Not Assigned"
- Shows now have a link to more information and run time (if available, otherwise 90 minutes is assumed)
- After adding a show, the time slots following it will gray-out for the duration of the performance
I also made an internal tool to manually add show listings and times:
Some technical information:
- Rather than a React app, this is a single-page HTML file with vanilla JavaScript (hahaha)
- Instead of a single JSON file with show objects with an array of times, there are two: one with shows and one with performances
- Next year, I'd like to make this as a PHP app that pulls data from a mySQL database
Maybe after some time on this I'll clean up the code and make this something easy for any festival to set up. Let me know if that sounds like a good idea. And if there's any issues, email me :D