Find the theaters and venues to call, and what to say.
Oxpium builds the list of theaters and live venues in your area, finds who programs, who runs the budget and who runs the stage, tells you when one has a reason to buy, and times the campaign to their season.
- 4,800theaters, concert halls and arenas with a payroll in the US
- 140,000people working for them
- 29people on the average venue's payroll
- < 9 minfrom the first sentence to a live campaign
Every theater and live venue in your area, in one sentence.
Performing arts center, community theater, music hall or comedy club: describe the target the way you'd tell a colleague. The agent searches public sources and professional databases, reads each venue's website, removes the duplicates and hands you a list, not a page of results.
- Reading the request
- Public sources · 438 venues in Ohio
- Reading websites · seat counts
- Cross-checking and de-duplicating
92 venues with 500 seats or more, sorted by capacity.
A capacity
The seat count, read on each venue's website: a 120-seat black box and a 900-seat hall don't buy the same sound system or the same ticketing.
A kind of venue
Theater, music hall, comedy club, cabaret or performing arts center: the agent reads each listing and website and keeps the kind you target.
A program
Plays, comedy, live music or family shows: the agent reads the season published on each website and notes what the venue puts on stage.
A status and an area
Nonprofit or for-profit, a city or a whole state, online ticketing or box office only: criteria you can combine in the same sentence.
Everything you need to reach each venue.
At a theater, three people matter: the executive or artistic director, who programs, the managing director, who holds the budget and signs, and the technical director, who picks the gear. The email on the website is usually the box office. The agent fills in the columns your campaign needs and verifies every email.
- Reading the request
- Reading websites · 92 venues
- Verifying emails
83 admin emails found and verified.
The right website email
The agent reads each venue's website, tells the admin address apart from the box office one, and verifies each email before adding it.
The director
The executive or artistic director, with their email and cell when there is one: they program the season and carry the big projects.
Management and stage
The managing director, who holds the budget, and the technical director, who picks the gear: each in its own column, depending on what you sell.
Capacity and season
The seat count, the number of shows this season, online ticketing or box office only: the agent reads them on each venue's website.
Automations that run for you, and tell you who to call.
Once the list is built, Oxpium keeps going without you. Each automation reruns its search on schedule and adds what just changed to the top of the list: a venue hiring a production manager, new leadership, audiences complaining, a renovation announced. Those are your signals, and they show up on their own.
- Job postings · 14 new at Ohio venues
- Matching postings to venues
- Updating the list
Latest runs
- Today+2
- Yesterday+1
- Thu, Oct 80
- Wed, Oct 7+1
2 venues posted a job since yesterday.
Hiring
Every morning, an automation flags the venues hiring a production manager, a box office lead or a managing director, and moves them to the top.
New leadership
Every Monday, the agent rereads each venue's staff page and flags the ones with a new director: new leadership tends to rethink its vendors.
Audience reviews
Every month, the agent reads the new reviews and flags the venues where audiences complain about the sound, the seats, the heat or the lines.
Your own watch
A renovation, a new season posted online, or any watch you can write in one sentence: the agent reruns it and tells you what changed.
A campaign that follows the season's calendar.
A venue plays nights and weekends, and the office fills up late in the morning, so the sending window sits midweek from 10 am to 12:30 pm. The season runs September to June, the next one is booked a year ahead over winter and spring, and nonprofit budgets go to the board before the fiscal year. Many venues go dark in summer, so the campaign waits. The sequence stops on the first reply.
Subject A show for venue's 2027–28 season
Each variable is a column of your list, filled in by the agent.
Weekday late mornings
The venue plays nights and weekends. Emails and calls go out Tuesday to Friday between 10 am and 12:30 pm, when the office is in.
Timed to the season
Booked a year ahead, budgeted before the fiscal year, dark in summer. An agent step reads the season online before writing the follow-up.
Calls from the browser
You call the venue from your browser. Every call is recorded, transcribed and summarized right in the list, on the venue's row.
Stops on the first reply
As soon as a venue replies, the sequence stops for them. You take it from there, and the next follow-up never goes out.
Frequently asked questions
Write “theaters and music halls in Ohio with 500 seats or more”. The agent searches public sources and professional databases, reads each venue's website for its seat count, removes duplicates and hands you the list with the kind of venue, the phone and the website. It takes a few minutes.
Ask the agent: it reads the staff page on the website, finds the managing director, the executive director and the technical director, verifies their emails and adds a cell when it finds one. For a purchase, the managing director holds the budget; for equipment, the technical director writes the spec.
Tell the agent once: “every Monday, reread each venue's staff page and flag the ones with a new director”. The automation compares with last week, and those venues land at the top of your list with the name of the person who just started. New leadership usually reviews its vendors within the year.
A first email between November and March, while the next season is being built, a call three days later late in the morning, then a follow-up the agent writes from the season on the venue's website. Emails go out from your own mailbox, calls from your browser, and the sequence stops as soon as the venue replies.
For 250 venues with their website read, 220 emails and 80 cell phones, count around €40 of data on top of the subscription. An agency typically charges €1,000 to €1,500 for a comparable list, delivered once and never updated.See pricing
They're on the list too: the agent finds them through their listings and websites like any other venue, and notes who runs the house. For a purchase, the decision often also goes through the city's arts department or the university's procurement office.
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