Stagistic is a script editor built specifically for theatrical plays and musicals. Not screenwriting. Not prose. The stage.
ACT TWO, SCENE ONE
An empty rehearsal room. Piano, lid open. MARA stands at the window. JONAS enters.
JONAS
I know you're not ready.
MARA doesn't turn around.
MARA
I'm always ready.
(a beat)
That's the problem.
JONAS
The director wants the number
from the top of Act One.
Musical number: FIRST LIGHT (reprise, bar 23)
Stagistic understands the craft of theatre: how a scene builds, how a musical number interrupts and transforms dialogue, how stage directions serve the director as much as the story. These aren't formatting rules. They're how theatre thinks.
Whether you're writing a one-act play or a full three-act musical, the editor stays out of your way and keeps your work structured exactly as theatre demands.
Dedicated blocks for acts, scene headings, character cues, dialogue, stage directions, lyrics, and notes. Every part of the script keeps its own formatting and behaviour.
A live outline keeps the structure visible as you write. Jump directly to any scene, reorder scenes, and group them into acts instead of forcing your play into a screenplay-shaped structure.
Build a character catalogue directly from your script. Assign colours, highlight appearances across the document, rename characters consistently, and tag them inside stage directions.
Write lyrics as their own block type, manage songs and instrumentals, place music cues and out markers directly in the script, and attach score PDFs to individual musical numbers.
Configure page format, title page, headers and footers, and each block's indentation, alignment, emphasis, and casing. Set keyboard shortcuts and decide which block follows next, so the editor matches the way you write.
Preview and export professionally formatted PDFs, start scenes on new or odd-numbered pages, generate character-specific versions, or create an integrated-score export with the corresponding sheet music inserted at the right points.
Yes. Stagistic Editor is free now and will remain free. There is no subscription, trial, or paywall for writing, structuring, or exporting your scripts. Other Stagistic production tools may be paid in the future, but the editor will not be.
No. You can open the editor and start writing without signing up. Your scripts are stored locally in your browser by default.
Yes. Acts, scenes, stage directions, character cues, lyrics, and music are part of the document model rather than formatting conventions layered onto a screenplay editor.
Yes. Plays get theatre-specific structure, characters, stage directions, and flexible PDF export. Musicals add dedicated lyric blocks, music cues and outs, song and instrumental catalogues, score PDFs, and integrated-score export.
Locally in your browser. You can download a .stagistic backup and import it again whenever you need it. Cloud sync is not part of the first alpha; it is planned for a later release and will be free.
Yes. There are no restrictions on how you use scripts you write in Stagistic, for professional theatre companies, touring productions, or any commercial context.
Yes. The landing page and web editor are available on GitHub under the MIT licence. Issues, discussions, and pull requests are welcome.
The editor runs in any modern browser without installation. Desktop and mobile apps are planned for later phases.
It's an experimental alpha. The core writing experience is functional, but expect rough edges. We recommend keeping backups of important scripts. Feedback and bug reports are very welcome — they directly shape what gets fixed first.
Writing in Stagistic is free in your browser, with no account or paywall. The editor will remain free.
The source is available on GitHub. Future production tools may be paid; the editor will not be.