Purpose:

When encouraging or requiring students to see theatre productions outside of an educational setting, it is tempting to assume that students can easily find one of the hundreds of nightly performances in New York City. However, many students do not know where to begin their ticket hunt because, in their minds, Broadway is the only theatre in the city and it’s too expensive to attend.

In order to overcome major entry barriers into the New York theatre scene, the NYC Ticket Guide provides students with information and links to some of the best places online to find inexpensive theatre tickets.

Sharing Suggestions:

If you want to provide your students easy access to the NYC Ticket Guide, you can either provide students with a short link on your syllabus or assignment sheet (http://bit.ly/nycticketguide) or embed the Google Doc directly into your class website.

To embed in an Academic Commons Word Press site:

  • From your WordPress dashboard open your Plugins tab, search the installed plugins for Google Docs Short Code, and click to activate.
  • Now navigate back to your dashboard and open up the post or page where you want to embed the guide. On a new line, paste the following shortcode between [brackets]:
gdoc link="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rHRHwYwclVDEi2fUj8wllvlx5C1SvXxLJvb7cFF9xz0/edit?usp=sharing" height="800"

To embed in another website:

  • Paste the following line into your code:
<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rHRHwYwclVDEi2fUj8wllvlx5C1SvXxLJvb7cFF9xz0/pub?embedded=true"></iframe>

Assignment Suggestions:

Students are far more likely to use the NYC Ticket Guide if they are required to see a professional production as part of a writing assignment. When my students have been given the guide alongside an optional assignment for extra credit, they have failed to take advantage of all the theatre performances in the city.

The NYC Ticket Guide may be well received by students, but access to information alone does not seem to motivate students into action.

Here is a version of the production response paper prompt that I use in most of my classes: