When entering from a programme, it would be much easier to have a table with rows for Person, Role and Cast/Crew (and optionally the other fields). Having to submit after every person slows entry down considerably.

Email alert / RSS feed for when a play is about to be performed near me that has previously been seen by one of my friends. Then I can ask the friend if it is any good, and book myself to see it.

The site needs to build a community. New users may want editorial advice.

Ability to delete or edit previous posts that you have made

For example, http://theatricalia.com/play/3r6/the-snow-queen/production/jak has Laura Checkley playing about 5 parts.

http://www.its-behind-you.com/diary.html has a lot of current pantos & links to pages archiving the the last 10 years. Work has started over on http://github.com/rjmunro/its-behind-you to make these listings machine readable.

Often a photo of a production features more than one cast member - it would be great to tag those so that they can appear both on the production's page and on the pages of the actors themselves, and so that people looking at the pictures can tell who is who.

For example, this photo features 2 cast members:
http://theatricalia.com/photograph/view/v2

So if the production is only one day, you need to put that day as both the start and end dates.

Alternatively, have an ongoing tickbox that disables the end date.

http://theatricalia.com/play/5v6/barnum/production/njr is a tour. I know when and where it started and finished (from wikipedia), but not when and where it went in between, not even how long it was at those venues. Currently it's saying that the opening location is stil ongoing.

- Cast names should auto-complete with AJAX & do the homonym matching interactively
- Character / role names should auto-complete based on the characters in previous runs of the same play
- Cast / crew dropdown should guess based on a few common words for crew.
- If cast / crew is already filled in but not separated, it would be nice to have just a load of dropdowns. E.g: http://theatricalia.com/play/8kc/brassed-off/production/hvv

Perhaps just venue aliases for their old names. For example:

http://theatricalia.com/place/n8/apollo-theatre-oxford-oxford is the same as http://theatricalia.com/place/9d/new-theatre-oxford, but the different names applied at different time.

Derby Playhouse has just been renamed Derby Theatre.

I often get a list of people who's names are very different to the one I typed. It should probably use a Levenstein distance to reduce the number of false positives. Also consider eliminating people with no work more than 40 years before or after the production that is being edited.

Would help to spread the word about it.

On the play page, you can list multiple authors but not differentiate their contributions.

Nottingham Playhouse actually moved in 1963 from Goldsmith Street to the current location on Wellington Circus. Can there be a way to link the two venue profiles together? The Nottingham Playhouse (Goldsmith Street) venue was previously known as the Little Theatre so those two profiles are connected as well. It's more a 'nice-to-have' then 'must-have' feature, but it would be useful for the historical side of the website to highlight these sort of connections :)

Not sure what, if any, solution there might be for this. Profiles are in date order for the shows, which is fine when the run isn't too long, but some London shows last for years. I'm not sure what the best approach is but I'm fed up of seeing War Horse at the top of my profile. Can Shows that last over a year have an extra box where people can add month/year they visited?

e.g.
Nick Morris - http://theatricalia.com/person/1nq7/nick-morris
Nancy Meckler - http://theatricalia.com/person/97b/nancy-meckler
Richard Baron - http://theatricalia.com/person/1mkg/richard-baron