Broadway on the Cheap: How To Get Rush and Lottery Tickets

New York Theater: Below is a chart showing a list of discounted tickets via lottery and rush for each current Broadway show, presented in the tradition of the useful (but sadly no longer updated) website Broadway for Broke People. The practice of discounted rush tickets (where you line up, usually on the morning of the performance) began with the musical “Rent” in 1997, when theater lovers often camped out in front of the theater overnight, for a chance at $20 tickets in the first two rows, at a time when regular ticket prices for Broadway shows had already begun their steep ascent to prohibitively expensive.