Broadway Tickets and Tours: What’s the hubbub at StubHub?

September 28, 2006

What’s all the hubbub about Broadway tickets? 

Okay, the lights go down, the curtain rises and the players take their places. And you’re at a professional theater show, and there’s nothing like it in the world. The best actors, singers and dancers take the stage and electrify the audience with their talent. Whether in New York City or touring through your town, these are the shows memories are made of. 

That’s why we’ve launched this Broadway blog to give you and other fans, buddies, couples, families, travelers and knights the latest show news and information about theater ticket sales. 

Who are we? According to William Grimes of The New York Times, “To anyone surfing the Web, StubHub looks like a ticket brokerage. It’s not. The company, founded (in 2000) by a couple of Stanford Business School students, is a kind of stock market where the only shares traded are tickets to live events….Buyers and sellers mingle in the marketplace and, through free negotiation, arrive at a price that reflects the true value of a commodity.” 

Now that we’ve disclosed our transparent biases, may we offer a suggestion? If you want to buy Broadway tickets, it would be wise to get your hands on them as soon as possible: Broadway Tickets The best tickets to the best shows will go faster than you can say, “I’m not dead yet…”