Program areas at TDF
Tkts by tdf - the tkts ticket booths support tdf's mission of encouraging and enabling diverse audiences to attend Theatre and dance. The tkts booths, starting in 1973 with one and at june 30, 2023, numbering two, sell approximately 700,000 same-day discounted tickets annually to broadway and off-broadway Theatre and dance performances. Tkts enables theatregoers who cannot afford full price tickets to attend Theatre, which in turn significantly increases attendance. The tkts booths closed in march 2020 due to the covid related suspension of live performances in new york city. Tkts reopened in september 2022.
Tdf schools and community engagement - the education program builds audiences for the Theatre by introducing young people to live Theatre and preparing them to engage as audiences. Approximately 12,000 new york city public school children are brought to Theatre and dance performances annually at no cost to the schools or students, and in addition these young people participate in classroom workshops, post-performance discussions and playwrighting workshops designed to enhance and contextualize their experience. Tdf community engagement programs work to strengthen local audiences from every borough and neighborhood in new york city, currently working with over 55 centers or agencies.
Tdf membership program - the membership program also supports tdf's mission of encouraging and enabling diverse audiences to attend Theatre and dance. Annually tdf makes possible the sale of approximately 570,000 deeply-discounted tickets to broadway, off-broadway, and off-off broadway Theatre and dance performances to over 115,000 tdf members, who qualify for membership by certifying that they belong to one of thirteen categories making them eligible for discounted tickets.
Tdf accessibility programs, tdf's costume collecti
Strategy and journalism programs, outreach and pu
And audience research are tdf's other program are
Outreach and Public Relations
Audience Research