# Offbook
> Practical guidance for the people who bring theatre productions from the first rehearsal to the final curtain.

## Entries
- [T-8 Weeks: Building a Digital Prompt Book That Keeps Every Margin Note](https://offbook-5aa.pages.dev/digital-prompt-book-stage-management/): A digital prompt book works when it preserves the structure and annotations of a working rehearsal document while making scripts, cues, reports and revisions.
- [Surtitles for a Bilingual Production: A Human-Edited Machine Translation Workflow](https://offbook-5aa.pages.dev/bilingual-theatre-surtitles-human-editing/): Machine translation can provide a first draft of theatre surtitles, particularly when a production has a complete script and a consistent glossary.
- [Cue Sheets From a Script: A Practical Method for Finding Entrances, Props and Sound Cues](https://offbook-5aa.pages.dev/script-cue-extraction-entrances-props/): Text tools can help turn a formatted script into preliminary lists of entrances, props and sound cues, but the lists need to be checked against stage.
- [Tech Week Reports in Ten Minutes: A Practical Template and Tool Workflow](https://offbook-5aa.pages.dev/tech-week-reports-ten-minute-workflow/): A useful tech week report records what happened, what changed, what remains unresolved and who owns the next action.
- [Audio Description for a Small Theatre: A Realistic Guide for Volunteer Teams](https://offbook-5aa.pages.dev/audio-description-small-theatre-guide/): A small theatre can contribute meaningfully to audio description, but a volunteer team should distinguish production support from specialist describing work.
- [After the Curtain: What Theatre Can Learn From Audiences Who Follow Fictional Characters Online](https://offbook-5aa.pages.dev/theatre-audiences-fictional-characters-online/): Audiences often remain interested in fictional characters after a performance because a compelling character creates questions, emotional connections and a.

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- [About Offbook](https://offbook-5aa.pages.dev/about/): what the site covers and how entries are made

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