Talk to tourists about where they get tickets to Broadway shows, and a lot of them will say, “The Tickets Booth” or “That red place in the middle of Times Square” or “Where the people line up, you can’t miss it.”
Because of its location, and its brand-iful branding, the TKTS booth [...]
Last year, fellow cage-rattlers Jim McCarthy, Damian Bazadona and I, introduced the first ever TEDx Broadway. We got some great speakers in a room and posed the question, “What’s the best Broadway can be?”
And the answers blew us away. We heard about Sleep No More’s zero dollar marketing budget, and how [...]
Twelve years ago, I was strolling through a video store (!) on the Upper West Side that is long since gone, and I fell in love . . . with a story.
It was the story of a man who, while strolling through a hotel on Mackinac Island, fell in love with [...]
Oh ye who think theater tickets are too expensive! Yes, ye know who ye are. This post is for ye (and even me!).
Twice a year the Off-Broadway Alliance sponsors one of the most awesome programs in town, and it’s that time again.
I’m talking 20at20.
$20 tickets. For more [...]
Every time we post about a semimar, I get a bunch of emails asking if we ever plan on doing them online, in, you know, one of them there fancy webinar-type things.
And, for months now, I’ve been answering, “Soon!”
Well, “soon” now means August 7th, August 16th, August 22nd, and August [...]
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