Old Ferry PlayhouseA sample community-theatre website. The organization is invented.
A volunteer theatre in a former warehouse on the landing: five shows a season, a 180-seat house bought from a cinema, two staff and a budget of about $300,000. The site is a cork call board: every show, audition, shift and document is a sheet pinned to it.
- KindCommunity theatre, volunteer cast and crew
- BudgetAbout $300,000
- Staff2, plus a volunteer board
- Pages6, shows and sign-ups staff-editable
- Look"Call board": paper sheets pinned to cork inside a wooden frame, handwritten labels only
- Real?No. Every person, show credit and document is invented and labelled
One name, one look, one voice.
Every sample has its own brand, set once and used the same way on every page, from the home page to the financials. It is the same work we do for your organization.
- A name and a wordmark, set in one display type
- Four or five colours, each with one job
- One type for reading, chosen for the people the site serves
- One line that says what the organization does, used in search, listings and the share preview
A volunteer community theatre at the old ferry landing.
Six things to press, in order.
Each one is a working feature, and each one is an example of what we build. Nothing you do on the site is recorded.
Show sheets sized to the rule
Each show sheet prints the author line at the percentage of the title the licensor asks for, from a number staff enter. The credit wording is labelled as a sample and names no real licensor.
A season-pass window that opens itself
Renewals first, then the public, from dates staff set. The pass sheet on Tickets and the box on Home follow the same dates.
Audition sign-up with an age check
Pick a call, enter an age: the form checks it against the call and asks for a guardian under 18. Demo mode: it validates, explains what a real site would do, and sends nothing.
A crew sheet per performance
Every performance has its own sheet of shifts. A full shift stays listed as full; a shift vanishes with its performance's date.
The financials pattern, pinned
Sponsors by level, the year adding up, five labelled sample filings (three 990s, a review, the letter) on the About sheet.
The board as the home page
No hero, no sections: the sheet for what is playing, the next audition, the pass window and the crew call, all on one wall.
Sign in. No password. Nothing you change is saved.
The button below signs you in to the real staff area as sample staff. You see what the organization's staff would see: one menu, a tile per tool, and the checks.
- 01Tiles for Shows, Season pass, Auditions, Crew shifts, Sponsors, Financial documents, Year-end
- 02Checks: a show without a sale date, an audition in the past, a shift short of people, a 990 a year old
- 03Show status (playing, on sale, soon, past) is computed from the dates staff enter
- 04Press Update on anything and the screen says "Nothing was saved"
A season, in a minute.
A sample of the one-minute videos in the plan: the warehouse, the season, and where the money went, told from the playhouse\u2019s own numbers.
- 1You send the photos and clips you already have, and a line or two on what the video is for: year-end giving, volunteers, an event, the story in your 990.
- 2We write a one-minute script from what is on your site and in your filing, and send it for your yes.
- 3We make it within one week of getting your material: about a minute, wide and vertical, captions burnt in, and a text version for your site.
Up to five a year are in the plan, at no extra charge. The first five nonprofits can have one free: see the offer →
Sample video. Old Ferry is invented, so it has no footage of its own: the clips are free stock (Pexels), no face appears, and the narration is a synthetic voice. For a real organization connectNPO uses only the photos and clips its staff send.
Read the script instead (about one minute)
A grain warehouse at the ferry landing, built in nineteen eleven.
In nineteen sixty-one, eleven neighbours staged a play on the loading floor. This is the Old Ferry Playhouse, in its sixty-fifth season.
The county sold them the building for one dollar. The hundred and eighty seats came from a cinema that closed in nineteen eighty-eight.
On now: The Importance of Being Earnest. Next: Twelve Angry Jurors. Eighteen dollars a ticket, twelve for students.
One and a half staff, nine board members... and about a hundred and forty volunteers a season, on stage and off.
Last year the Playhouse took in four hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. Tickets and passes were most of it; gifts and sponsors paid the rest.
Of what it spent, fifty-five percent went to the productions themselves. Twenty-four percent kept the building standing. Sixteen thousand dollars went to reserves.
The season, the auditions, the crew sheets and the filings are all on the call board.
Sample video. Old Ferry Playhouse is invented and every figure is a sample. The clips are free stock (Pexels), no face is shown, the narration is a synthetic voice and the music is AI-generated. Made by connectNPO.
What this sample shows that we build.
Show sheets from the licensor rule
Author line sized by a number staff enter; sample wording.
Season pass window
Renewal then public, from dates.
Audition sign-up
Age check against the call; guardian consent under 18.
Crew shifts per performance
Full shifts stay listed; past ones vanish.
Sponsors by level
With what each level pays for.
Five labelled filings
Three 990s, a review, the letter; the year adds up.
TheaterEvent data
One per show, plus the organization.
Staff preview
A public button into the real staff area, read-only.
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