TKTS is a New York institution. I spent my childhood waiting on lines here with my aprents to get discount Broadway tickets. Realize you won't get tickets for the most popular shows here (Wicked has been sold out for months) and you can't buy tickets in advance only for the same day, but you can see some great theatre at a discount price. You may also want to check into show's rush policies (try Playbill.com) where you can get even cheaper tickets by lottery at the theaters themselves; rush is sometimes, but not always restricted to students.
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