Telecharge Rush is the Shubert Organization’s lottery system, running at rush.telecharge.com. Shubert owns or operates about 20 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. Here’s how it works.
What is Telecharge Rush?
Telecharge is the ticketing platform the Shubert Organization uses for all its theater box offices. Rush.telecharge.com is their dedicated lottery and rush interface. 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 for lotteries.
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.
- Check your email at 10 AM and 3 PM the day before the performance — Telecharge runs two separate drawings.
- If you win either drawing: you have 6 hours to pay and claim your tickets.
- Tickets are delivered digitally by email.
Entry timing — two draws, not one
This is what makes Telecharge different from Lucky Seat and Broadway Direct. Telecharge runs two separate drawings per show per day:
- Entries open: Midnight the day before the performance
- First draw: 10 AM the day before — winners get 6 hours to pay
- Entries close: 3 PM the day before
- Second draw: 3 PM the day before — winners get 6 hours to pay
Enter before 10 AM and you’re in both draws. Enter after 10 AM (but before 3 PM) and you’re only in the second draw. Enter early — there’s no reason not to.
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 Rush
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
- Chess the Musical — Imperial Theatre. $49
- Death of a Salesman — Winter Garden Theatre. $49
- Giant — Music Box 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 Fear of 13 — James Earl Jones Theatre. $45
- 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].
Enter before 10 AM. You get two shots at a win instead of one. There’s no cost to entering early and no advantage to entering late.
6-hour payment window is generous. Lucky Seat and Broadway Direct give you 60 minutes. Telecharge gives you 6 hours. 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.
