TDF membership is your ticket to the performing arts at affordable prices. Our members enjoy access to hundreds of Broadway, Off Broadway, music and dance productions each year for only $20 to $36 a ticket. We invite you to see if you qualify to join the more than 80,000 theatre lovers who get the best deals through TDF.
Who qualifies for TDF membership?
To qualify for TDF membership, you must belong to one of the following groups: full-time students, full-time teachers, union members, retirees, civil service employees, staff members of not-for-profit organizations, performing arts professionals, members of the armed forces or clergy. When you join, you will be asked to supply TDF with proof of your eligibility.
How do I join?
If you qualify, then joining is easy! Just click on the "
Apply online now" icon on the right and fill out the online application. After you join, you will immediately have access to discounts of up to 70% off full-price tickets to hundreds of live productions each year. When you join, you will be asked to pay your first year's annual fee of $27.50. This fee helps TDF administer this discount ticket program and other services that support theatregoing in New York. You'll find that TDF membership will pay for itself with your first ticket purchase!
What can I expect as a TDF member?
As a TDF member, when you log on at the "TDF Member Login" section at
www.tdf.org, you will see dozens of productions available for purchase. Not every show in town becomes available to TDF members (obviously not the hit, sold-out shows)-but you'll be surprised at how many do. We are often able to obtain tickets at low cost for our members during previews, when productions are trying to build "word of mouth," or at times when their show isn't selling out at full price. Add to that dozens of Off and off-Off Broadway productions, dance presentations and concerts, and you'll find yourself seeing more live performances than ever before!
What are some shows that TDF members have recently purchased tickets to?
13-A New Musical, The 39 Steps, Absinthe at the Spiegeltent, Altar Boyz, American Ballet Theatre
, August: Osage County, Avenue Q, Ballet NY,
Beast, Big Apple Circus
, Boeing Boeing, The Fantasticks, Flamingo Court, Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab, Fueerzabruta, Gypsy, Hairspray, Irena's Vow, Legally Blonde, Monty Python's Spamalot, The Marvelous Wonderettes, New York City Ballet
, New York Philharmonic,
Paul Taylor Dance Company, The Phantom of the Opera, Speed the Plow, Spring Awakening, To Be Or Not To Be and Xanadu.
Where in the theatre will I be sitting?
Tickets for TDF members' orders are processed as "best available." This means that sometimes your tickets will be in the orchestra, sometimes in the front mezzanine and sometimes in the rear mezzanine. We rarely know in advance what ticket locations our members will be given.
What if I prefer to order tickets by mail?
We do have a few members who either don't have a computer or prefer not to order tickets online. For them, we have a "Mail Only Membership" wherein they receive printed offerings approximately every six weeks. If you prefer a "Mail Only Membership," download the application in pdf form on the right and mail in to TDF. (Please note there are more offerings available online due to last-minute availability.)
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