Half Price Tickets in New Orleans, LA

Tickets are in ample supply

When I spent time there, culture in New Orleans was always more rooted in the Mardi Gras than the performing arts. My but how times have changed. Notwithstanding the devastation of Katrina, music, theatre and dance is very much alive here.

The Arts Council of New Orleans has a great online email ticket offer program called NOLA FunSavers, and has already offered everything from The Nutcracker to Puccini's Il Trittico. You can learn more on their website.

Arts Council of New Orleans

Half Price Tickets in Philadelphia, PA

They have a different way of discounting in Philadephia where the Cultural Alliance has an email program called FunSavers which offers discount tickets in advance. More a political organization than a marketing arm for the arts organizations, it is a start.

You can find out more about it at Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

Half Price Tickets in Pittsburgh, PA

The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council has a small mailing list which receives half price ticket offers. They once had a ticket booth, a drive-in one at that! - but the politics of Allegheny Country doomed it to failure, and even the mail order program is a emaciated ghost of what it could be.

You can get information on it here: