Mezzanine Theater Diary Hack 2023.4 + Redeem Codes

Incredible. Almost addicting, even, to scroll through others’ reviews and your own confirmation emails to find what shows you’ve seen. Five minor gripes and suggestions: Would love to be able to add custom pronouns other than he/him, she/her, or they/them. At least there are options I guess… Would love to be able to scroll through photos if there are multiple on others’ review instead of having to exit the photo and then pick the next. It would also be great if we could add actual DIARY entries about theatre, other than shows that you’ve watched. For example, I could write an entry for today, Sat. Sept. 30, and say, “Today I bought tickets for x and x. I’m so excited to see them! Also, x tour is coming to my town, so I’m going to see that too!”. That would really take the app to another level. Another thing would be the ability to add a bio to your profile. This would honestly just be nice and fun. Lastly, I’d love to be able to mark someone else’ review with something like “I Agree” and “I Don’t Agree”. Thank you for this lovely app! :)

This is such an easy way to keep track of shows I’ve seen, and not just on Broadway or in the West End! It’s super easy to add custom shows, so even that black box in Atlanta or second National Tour in Colorado can get a diary entry. Perfect for jotting down notes on shows, recording seat location (which is so helpful when booking future shows) and rating what you see! Also a huge fan of the map feature to see all of the places I’ve seen shows and a handy graph to see how this year stacks up against others. Warning: this app is addictive, in the best way, so once you start adding shows you’ll want to go back and record everything you’ve seen!

When I moved away from home a few years ago, I made the mistake of throwing out playbills and ticket stubs (in an attempt to declutter) and it’s something I’ve regretted since!! Then I found mezzanine and I have had some fun filling in my diary with shows, reviews and even pictures of shows that I’ve seen. I’ve searched through photos and past calendars to make sure I’m putting in everything ha. I look forward to seeing what more this app will do. I like that it doesn’t feel identical to Fb, instagram or other social media apps, I hope it stays that way. This feels different!

This works well for Broadway shows. But it is surprisingly undeveloped for regional theater, even for major regional theater cities like Washington DC; and it also lacks some very basic interface features.

For DC, the app’s database doesn’t have even recent productions of major plays by popular regional theatres. It doesn’t even prepopulate the “theater” entry field for major regional theatres like Studio Theater or Arena Stage. So those theatre names and productions have to be manually entered.

Even worse, manual entries don’t appear to be saved. So each time I have to again manually type in the name of the theater.

The app doesn’t even appear to have a pull-down list of cities to select. Those too have to be typed in manually over and over again.

The lack of stored cities and regional theaters—and the failure to save even manual entries—not only makes using the app more cumbersome, but also introduces needless inconsistency and errors (if, for instance, I spell it “Washington, DC” one time and “Washington, D.C.” another time).

I think right now this app is best advertised as a way for New York theater fans to track what they’ve seen. It doesn’t seem to be minimally useful for productions outside of NY; it lacks even remedial features for regional theater, even though most theater happens outside of NY.

I track books on Goodreads, movies on Letterboxd, and sporting events on Sports Passport. I was missing one other hobby: Broadway shows. Mezzanine has the diary tracking feature I was looking for; it isn’t perfect, missing a place to add photos from the event and I couldn’t get the program thing to work, but there’s space for ratings, reviews, and even ticketing. Gotta see if there’s a friend feature; if not, that would be a must. But I am an instant fan—I’d even be willing to support the project financially. Great work!

I’ve been a user of Mezzanine since the TestFlight beta days and I’ve always loved this app. I used to have hundreds of paper playbills for every show I’ve seen but I was able to get rid of most of them by just recording them using this app. Love how you can add notes about your production and custom tags! I was particularly fond of the photo feature for if I had a special playbill, like a variant cover or a pride playbill. Come to find out, now you have to pay to add photos. Not a huge price tag but it’s tough since I got used to it for so long. Still a great app.

Really great app! I heard about it in the Musicals with Cheese podcast years ago (definitely recommend that too) and have been using it ever since. I love all of the little features such as reviews, statistics of how many theatres you've been to and shows per year, and even more.

One small suggestion I'd make is that now since profiles are public, maybe user bios could be a thing? Probably in development but still should be said. Keep up the great work!

I LOVE THIS APP! I however wish that a few features were to be added.

1) A better search bar, and a better way to find your friends.

2) The option to add shows from Community and School theatre. If you’re like me, a broke high schooler, and you can’t go see a lot of professional theatre, you watch community theatre. I would love to see a section in the discover page dedicated to non-professional theatre.

3) This may be going beyond what the app was designed for, but a way to log your own roles for shows you’ve performed.

These are just things I’d love to see. That being said, it’s an amazing app, and I can’t wait to keep using it!

I’ve been looking for an app like this for a long time and then along came Ben with Mezzanine. This is a fantastic app to easily track all the performances you’ve seen and keep a digital record of where you sat and what you liked or didn’t about the venue and performance all in one place. Ben is also extremely responsive to feedback. I can’t recommend this app enough!

Okay, so I thought that the only way to keep track of my Broadway shows was the Notes app on my phone or my Playbill collection. Until I discovered this app and now my life has changed! I’m loving to go through my Playbill collection and adding all my shows to the grid! HOW COME I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THIS BEFORE??? Thank you for your awesome job ❤️