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TDF has provided open captioning services for 400 productions, including the first open captioned performances in London at the Royal Shakespeare Company and on the West End.
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FOR EDUCATORS
It's not just about inexpensive tickets. Whether it's playwriting workshops pairing students with theatre pros or access to affordable, high-quality costumes, TDF partners with educators to ensure the performing arts play a starring role in the lives of students and teachers.
Open Doors
Theatre and dance mentors for high school students
 TDF Open Doors is a mentoring program offering small groups of high school students an in-depth introduction to live theatre and dance. Each group works with one or more dedicated theatre and dance professionals throughout the school year.
Play by Play
Theatre magazine by and for teens
 What are teens saying about theatre—and how can you get involved? Find the answers, and much more, in Play by Play, a glossy magazine featuring student-written reviews, profiles and interviews, as well as listings of shows students can see for $25 or less.
Residency Arts Project
NYC students learn playwriting from the pros
 The TDF Residency Arts Project is an intensive playwriting program that brings teaching artists into the classroom to guide students in writing original scenes and plays. The students' work is then given a public staged reading by professional actors at the end of the school year.
Stage Doors
Workshops that create informed theatergoers
 In the TDF Stage Doors program, teaching artists collaborate with classroom teachers to develop a series of eight workshops designed to prepare students for an informed, engaged theatregoing experience, which is the culmination of the program.
TDF Drama Dialogues
pilot program for fall 08
 As an outreach of the Education Department, the program will offer our valued membership a chance to enrich their theatergoing experience.

 
Theatre 101
You want to see a show but you've got questions. What should you wear? How early should you arrive? If you're a theatre neoph
TDF Costume Collection
Over 75,000 costumes!
 A remarkably rich resource, the TDF Costume Collection offers high-quality costumes and accessories for rent. The stock is donated by Broadway shows, major opera houses and other professional sources. Not-for-profit and commercial customers are eligible to take advantage of the expert design offered through the pulling and mail order department. The TDF Costume Collection resource center is available by appointment.
TKTS® Discount Booths
Same day sales, uptown and down
 Many producers utilize the TKTS Discount Booths as a direct marketing tool for surplus seats. In return for offering same-day discounts of between 20% and 50% off full-price tickets, they have access to a large and enthusiastic audience.
TDF Vouchers
A passport for the adventurous theatregoer
 Beyond Broadway and Off-Broadway theatres and midtown concert halls is a vast and intriguing alternative--theatre, dance and music performed on small stages and nontraditional spaces all over the city. You're not a real New York theatregoer till you've been Off-Off Broadway!
Youth Theatre Initiative
Students explore creating an original piece of theatre.
 The Youth Theatre Initiative was established in 2008 following the TDF Education Department's belief that "future audiences are built by engaging students first-hand in the vital and exciting activity of the creative process, as well as providing opportunities to see live performances of great theatre"