THE HALF-PRICE THEATER TICKETS DEAL

By Chris Erskine

July 12, 2009 12 AM PT

Visitors to London have long known about the discounted or half-price theater tickets available at TKTS booths on the day of the show. Now you can buy half-price and discounted tickets up to seven days in advance.

The deal: Busy Leicester Square is the hub of London’s theater scene. At the ticket booth on the south side of the square, you can pick up tickets from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily and noon to 3 p.m. Sundays. Recent performances of “Billy Elliot” were discounted to $62; tickets to “Stomp,” $41. The $5 booking fee is included in the advertised price. There is no booking fee for full-price seats. The Society of London Theatre, a trade association representing producers and theater owners, runs the sales. You’ll find a second TKTS booth in Brent Cross Shopping Centre in northwest London.

Info: www.tkts.co.uk

-- Chris Erskine

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

THE HALF-PRICE THEATER TICKETS DEAL

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