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Unlike a trip to the movies, a night at the theater requires some advanced research and good planning. Fortunately, the Internet can give you a hand finding your way to the stage. On the Web you'll find tools to buy tickets, research shows, read news and reviews, and plan a theater vacation. Whatever your theater interests are, you can explore them on Internet.

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Theater Tickets

Sometimes it seems like the effort of acquiring theater tickets is more trouble than it's worth. Learn to buy your tickets online and you'll never listen to another automated telephone voice or wait in line at a box office again. All you need to purchase tickets online is a credit card, a few minutes, and the ability to click a mouse.

Dulcinea's Insight

When you select tickets, the online box office puts them on hold for a few minutes while you complete your purchase. If you take too long to enter your information, your tickets are released back into the system. In most cases, you'll be redirected back to step one and will have to select your desired dates and seats again.

Although there are many sites that "sell" theater tickets, all reputable sites will redirect to you Telecharge, Ticketmaster, or the official Web site of the theater. Never give a Web site your credit information unless you are certain it is a real site. Checking for logos of official sponsors (i.e., FedEx) is one good way to recognize whether a site is fake.

Many of the Web sites will open a new window (called a "pop-up") to book your tickets. If the window doesn't open properly, you may need to disable your computer's pop-up blocker. Also, if you need to return to the original Web site, you should close or minimize the pop-up window.

Dulcinea's Picks

TicketboxUSA.com is the place to go if you absolutely must have tickets to the hottest show on Broadway and money is no object. You can expect to pay twice face value, but Ticketsbox provides tickets to otherwise sold-out shows and will FedEx your tickets to you so you have them quickly.

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Ilovenytheater.com is the perfect site if you know what show you want to see but don't know whether Telecharge or Ticketmaster is the box office. Select a show's title and then click "BUY TICKETS NOW" to access the show's online box-office.

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Ticket Central is an online box office devoted to off-Broadway shows. You can search by venue, theater company, date of performance, or even enter part of a show title into their search engine (perfect for those times when you've overheard a conversation about a ground-breaking new Off-Broadway show but now you can't remember the title).

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