As noted by the New York Times, playbills and programs are treasured components of the audience experience. BAYSTAGES Services can upgrade your patron experience with professionally designed and edited playbills and programs. You’ll save hours of staff time and enhance the pre-performance patron experience by relying on proven arts publishing professionals.

The pandemic forced our community to rethink everything including playbills, and BAYSTAGES Services developed a range of options from the traditional printed book to touch-less, fully digital publications, and hybrid solutions that include print and digital components (including options for traditional freely-distributed versions and enhanced copies that can be sold at performances). When you need something very, very custom, BAYSTAGES has your solution through our bespoke services.

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BAYSTAGES half-fold brochure-style playbills and programs are packed with essential information on your productions and designed to be printed in either full bleed, full-color, glossy offset press versions (example below left), or in-house and on-demand on desktop equipment with no bleed and limited-color or black-and-white options (example below right). Either way, they look great and add a professional flair to any presentation, particularly limited-run productions, readings, workshops, concert and dance performances, and student productions, as well as supporting the occasional “play-within-a-play” faux playbill situation. They also form the basis of our innovative hybrid playbill option.

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TIMELINE: Please allow at least one week from approval of four-page print component to delivery. Digital components can be edited at any time.

The BAYSTAGES hybrid playbill plan consists of a four-page short-form playbill print component (shown below) that includes the essential information – cast roster, essential credits, and other core data – for a production. It also includes a QR code (bottom left corner of image) that can be read by mobile devices to access a complete digital playbill that includes actor photos, cast and creative team and biographies, dramaturgy and other editorial, donor lists and recognition, interactive advertising, production photo galleries, and much more. The QR code can also be printed and displayed in advertising and marketing materials, on social media, in emails and newsletters, and at strategic points in the lobby for easy pre-performance or intermission access to the digital content without having the print component in hand.

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TIMELINE: Please allow at least one week from approval of four-page print component to delivery. The digital component can be edited at any time.

BAYSTAGES creates special publications for special events. These collectible keepsakes are perfect for sharing information and recognizing support at galas, awards ceremonies, festivals, touring productions, conferences, seminars, or other special events. Additional opportunities include photo-filled season retrospectives with company histories or milestone anniversary commemorative publications.

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Drive bidders to your gala silent auction tables or online auction site with beautiful and easy-to-follow print – either full-color, offset press editions, combination offset and desktop versions, or low-cost, completely desktop versions, as well as digital catalogs.

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Grab prospective and renewing subscriber attention with beautiful, inspiring season brochures for both print and digital distribution.

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From micro playbills and late-breaking production updates to marketing and promotion pieces, BAYSTAGES creates customized collaterals for you that incorporate an established style, current production art, and other brand standards.

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Rather than a quickly copied and stapled cluster of disparate pages, let BAYSTAGES create a streamlined, custom, interactive press kit that includes all the pertinent data, as well as links to supplementary information to assist the press in telling your production story. BAYSTAGES also creates concise media kits for a range of purposes including sponsorship solicitations and advertising sales that can be deployed either electronically or in printed form.

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Enhance your grant proposals and motivate donors with exciting annual reports that present the facts of your accomplishments in an exciting and visual style. Inspire budding theatre artists with exciting class offerings for summer camps or year-round classes and workshops.

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Nurture communications with your patron base with customized newsletters sharing season, production, marketing, or other company news.