Arts & Entertainment

NYC Off-Broadway Week: 2-For-1 Tickets Go On Sale

Shows such as "Jerry Springer — The Opera," "Jersey Boys" and the "Blue Man Group" are offering discounted tickets.

NEW YORK, NY — Ticket sales for NYC Off-Broadway Week — the promotional event where theater lovers can enjoy two Off-Broadway shows for the price of one — launched Monday, New York City's tourism agency announced.

NYC Off-Broadway Week will run from Feb. 12 to Feb. 25, and will feature 36 productions this winter. While the shows don't play in big-name Broadway theaters, a number of impressive productions will participate in off-Broadway week including "Jersey Boys," "Jerry Springer — The Opera" and "STOMP."

"The Off-Broadway theater community truly welcomes all as they continually offer a wide variety of entertaining productions for every audience type," Fred Dixon, president and CEO of NYC & Company, said n a statement.

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NYC Off-Broadway Week was launched in 2009 and has featured more than 600 productions throughout the years, tourism officials said. The promotion has generated an estimated $3 million through ticket sales.

Two-for-one tickets can be purchased through NYC & Company's website. Twenty-two of the shows featured in NYC Off-Broadway Week are first-time participants in the promotion.

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“This winter season features 22 new participants along with more than a dozen returning favorites, and we hope this value program entices both regular theatergoers and new audiences to come out and discover the exciting shows that Off-Broadway has to offer," Adam Hess, president of The Off-Broadway League, said in a statement."

Here's a full list of shows participating in NYC Off-Broadway Week:

  • A Letter to Harvey Milk
  • A Walk With Mr. Heifetz
  • Addy & Uno
  • Amy and the Orphans
  • An Ordinary Muslim
  • Avenue Q
  • Balls
  • Blue Man Group
  • Cardinal
  • Cinderella the Musical
  • Cruel Intentions: The Musical
  • Disco Pigs
  • Drunk Shakespeare
  • El Coronel No Tiene Quién Le Escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel)
  • Fire and Air
  • Gazillion Bubble Show
  • Good for Otto
  • In & Of Itself
  • In the Body of the World
  • Jerry Springer – The Opera
  • Jersey Boys
  • Naked Boys Singing!
  • NEWSical The Musical
  • Party Face
  • Perfect Crime
  • [PORTO]
  • Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic
  • Red Roses, Green Gold
  • Relevance
  • Sistas The Musical
  • STOMP
  • THE Amateurs
  • The Imbible: A Spirited History of Drinking
  • The Marvelous Wonderettes
  • The Snowy Day and Other Stories by Ezra Jack Keats
  • This One's For The Girls

Photo courtesy NYC & Company

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