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...ticket office is a joint venture of Harvard and Arts/Boston, a non-profit that promotes access to the arts in eastern Massachusetts. Arts/Boston also has booths--known as BosTix--in Copley Square and in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace; both of those BosTix locations will now begin selling tickets to some Harvard events...
...What I've done is take the funds [from the News Office ticket booth] and transfer them to BosTix--where we can get more bang for the same bucks," he said...
Wrinn says he chose BosTix because of its previous experience in selling admissions, its connections in the area's arts community, and its non-profit status. The group offers half-price, day-of-show tickets at its locations, and it runs Tomorrow's Audiences, a program which provides free tickets to art performances for disadvantaged children...
Harvard's performing arts groups will not incur additional costs by selling tickets through BosTix. Ticket buyers, though, will pay a small surcharge--an extra $3 on a $30 ticket--to cover the costs of running the booth...
Wrinn said he expected BosTix to be especially helpful for smaller, "shoe box" groups to advertise their performances. Each Harvard organization will determine how many tickets to sell through BosTix, and counselors in the Sanders Theatre Box office will be available to help them decide...