Telecharge is the Shubert Organization’s ticketing system, and its discount seats live at rush.telecharge.com — both lotteries and same-day rush. Shubert owns or operates 17 Broadway theaters — the Booth, the Broadhurst, the Music Box, the Imperial, the Majestic, the Shubert, the Schoenfeld, and more. If a show is playing one of those houses, its lottery is almost certainly on Telecharge, and there are usually a couple dozen Shubert lotteries open on any given day. Here’s how it works.
What is Telecharge?
Telecharge is the ticketing platform the Shubert Organization uses for all its theater box offices. Rush.telecharge.com is their dedicated discount interface — it runs both the digital lotteries and the same-day rush. It’s separate from the main Telecharge ticket-buying site — don’t confuse the two. The main site is for full-price tickets. Rush.telecharge.com is where the cheap seats live.
Each show has its own lottery page at a URL like rush.telecharge.com/show/lottery/[show-name]. There’s no master entry screen. You go directly to each show’s page, which means you need to bookmark them individually or find them through the show listings at rush.telecharge.com.
How to enter — step by step
- Go to rush.telecharge.com and find your show, or navigate directly to the show’s specific lottery URL.
- Create an account or sign in. Have your name, email, and a credit card ready.
- Select the performance date you want and choose 1 or 2 tickets.
- Submit your entry. Entries are free.
- Watch your email the day before the performance — winners are notified if their entry is drawn.
- If you win, you get a window to pay and claim online — and Telecharge’s is generous next to the 60 minutes you get elsewhere.
- Tickets are delivered digitally by email.
Two ways in: lottery and rush
Here’s what people miss about Telecharge: it isn’t just rush. It runs both — and the lottery is the bigger pool. On a typical day there are a couple dozen Shubert lotteries open at once, far more shows than the rush list, so the lottery is your main shot at a cheap seat.
The lottery is the long game: enter the day before, for free, and let the draw decide. Rush is the safety net: when a show offers it, you can buy discounted seats outright the day of the performance, no luck required. Play the lottery for the shows you want most, and lean on rush when you need a seat that night.
What it costs
Most Telecharge lotteries run around $40–$45. Check the individual show’s page for exact pricing before you enter.
Shows currently using Telecharge
These are Broadway shows currently running lotteries through Telecharge, all at Shubert and related houses:
- Buena Vista Social Club — Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. $49
- CATS: The Jellicle Ball — Broadhurst Theatre. $49
- Death of a Salesman — Winter Garden Theatre. $49
- Heathers: The Musical — New World Stages. $38
- Joe Turner’s Come and Gone — Ethel Barrymore Theatre. $49
- Maybe Happy Ending — Belasco Theatre. $45
- Oh, Mary! — Lyceum Theatre. $47
- Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical — John Golden Theatre. $39
- Proof — Booth Theatre. $49
- Ragtime — Vivian Beaumont Theater. $49
- The Outsiders — Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. $49
- Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) — Longacre Theatre. $48
- Wanted — James Earl Jones Theatre. Opens Oct 15
- Inter Alia — Music Box Theatre. Opens Nov 10
- Galileo — Shubert Theatre. Opens Nov 10
Check rush.telecharge.com for the live list — shows rotate in and out as productions open and close.
Tips
Bookmark each show’s page directly. There’s no persistent master list on rush.telecharge.com — show URLs don’t always surface intuitively. If you’re targeting a specific show, find its direct URL and save it. The URL pattern is usually rush.telecharge.com/show/lottery/[show-name].
Play the lottery widely. With a couple dozen Shubert lotteries open on a given day, winning is a numbers game — enter every show you’d actually sit through. Each entry is free and independent, so there’s no penalty for casting a wide net.
Generous payment window. Where Lucky Seat and Broadway Direct give winners about 60 minutes to pay, Telecharge gives you hours. If you win, you have time to rearrange your evening without panicking.
Box office physical rush. Some Shubert houses run physical rush in addition to the digital lottery — tickets sold at the box office when it opens, usually at 10 AM, first come first served. Worth trying for shows in their first few weeks of previews. Not advertised, not guaranteed — just worth asking.
Roundabout shows on Telecharge
Roundabout Theatre Company shows at Studio 54 and the Todd Haimes Theatre also use Telecharge ticketing — but their discount program for young theatergoers is Hiptix, not a lottery. Hiptix works differently and is worth understanding on its own. See our Hiptix guide.
What to do if you don’t win
Shubert houses have some of the most reliably available rush tickets in New York — physical rush at the box office starting when it opens. The Lyceum (Oh, Mary!), the Belasco (Maybe Happy Ending), and the Bernard B. Jacobs (The Outsiders) all have good sightlines from their rush sections.
For the full lottery strategy guide, read How to Win Every Broadway Lottery in 2026.
For a side-by-side comparison of all four platforms, see Broadway Lottery Platforms Explained.
Every show with an active lottery is at our Broadway Lottery Tickets hub.
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- The best Broadway lottery odds right now
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- How to win every Broadway lottery
- Every lottery platform, explained
