I've been sitting on this idea for a while, I rush regularly and kept a personal spreadsheet tracking arrival times, line sizes, and outcomes. When should I actually arrive? What days have the best odds? Is the line getting worse over time?

Then I saw post analyzing the EBT rush arms race and it confirmed what I'd been thinking: this data is incredibly useful when you can actually see the patterns. That post did it brilliantly for one show, I wanted to build something that does it for all rush shows, and keeps updating over time.

So I finally built it out into a full dashboard.

Link: Broadway Rush Intel

It's free, no login required, no data collection on users.

What it shows

• Suggested arrival time for each show (calculated from the 80th percentile of reported successful arrivals)
• Difficulty ratings weighted by how early you need to arrive AND reported success rates
• Day-of-week heatmap showing which days tend to have shorter vs. longer lines
• Trend indicators showing whether a show is getting harder or easier over recent weeks
• Interactive Theater District map with every rush show color-coded by difficulty
• Head-to-head comparison tool for deciding between shows (arrival times, line sizes, success rates side by side)
• "Latest Win" mode showing the latest someone reported arriving and still getting a ticket

Screenshots

Here's a quick tour of what it looks like:

1. Dashboard - Arrival trends + difficulty ranking + line size data: The main dashboard tracks arrival times over time for the top shows, ranks all shows by difficulty (with trend arrows showing if it's getting harder or easier), and shows average line sizes at box office open.
2. Interactive Theater District Map: Every rush show is pinned on a real map of the Theater District. Markers are color-coded by difficulty (green = easy, orange = hard, red = very hard). Click any marker for rush price, success rate, average arrival, and a link to the full detail page.
3. Show Detail: Every Brilliant Thing: Drill into any show for the full picture, suggested arrival time (7:30 AM for EBT based on the 80th percentile of winners), arrival trends over time, line count at box office open, and success rate broken down by day of week.
4. Head-to-Head Comparison: Can't decide between shows? Select up to 5 and compare earliest arrival times, line sizes, success rates, and trends over time, all on one page.
5. Mobile View: Works on your phone. Same data, responsive layout. Difficulty rankings with trend arrows at a glance for when you're setting your alarm the night before.

About the data

I want to be transparent about this:

• Every data point comes from publicly posted Rush Reporting Threads in this sub. I'm aggregating and visualizing what community members have already chosen to share openly. Nothing private, no insider info, no box office partnerships.
• The information is already available to anyone reading those threads. This just makes it easier to see patterns without scrolling through weeks of comments.
• The line is still first-come, first-served. This doesn't change who gets tickets or how many are available. It's just a visual summary of what the community already knows collectively.
• Currently ~173 reports across 21 shows from March through May 2026.

Limitations

Being upfront about what this is NOT:

• Not live or auto-updating. I'm manually incorporating data from reporting threads, so there's a lag. This is a side project, not a service with real-time feeds.
• Some shows have very few reports (1-2). The app flags these but take low-data shows with a grain of salt.
• Not comprehensive. 21 shows is a start. Many rush/lottery shows aren't covered yet.
• I may have some data wrong. If you spot an incorrect theater, wrong rush price, or a bad arrival time, the Feedback page lets you flag it.

Background

I'm a full-stack developer with a few years of experience working on startups and figured I'd apply those skills to something I personally use. This started as a personal spreadsheet for planning my own rush mornings and grew from there.

I added a small ad slot and a "buy me a coffee" link since this took meaningful time to build, ideally to put toward a proper domain at some point. That said, I don't have ambitions to turn this into some big solo project. If folks running existing community resources (rush reporting sites, etc.) want to collaborate or integrate any of this, I'm very open to that conversation. I'd rather this data live where the community already goes.

I also added a Submit form if anyone wants to contribute their own rush reports directly, which would help keep things more current.

Feedback welcome

If you find it useful, glad to hear it. If something looks wrong or you have suggestions, the Feedback page or a comment here works. And if you're a developer who wants to help maintain/improve this, feel free to DM.

Happy rushing.

Knew basically nothing going in. No reviews, no synopsis, just showed up at the Pershing Square Signature Center and sat down. Genuinely think that's the only way to experience this one.

For the first stretch of the show I was just watching what felt like a really sharp office comedy. Katie Finneran is answering phones nonstop, cleaning up after her coworkers, gossiping, being the kind of aggressively competent person we've all worked with. Funny as hell. I was completely relaxed. And that's exactly the trap.

Because something starts to shift and you can't quite point to when it happened. By the time the stakes actually land you're already in it. I walked out of that theater doing the same blank stare I did after catching the first preview of Bug back in December. Both times I went in cold and both times I came out needing a minute to figure out what I actually just witnessed.

Bug is a whole different level obviously. It's a full two act wrecking ball and by the end you feel genuinely destroyed. The Receptionist is quieter, shorter, more of a slow needle under the skin. But they're pulling from the same place, that idea that ordinary people in ordinary situations are capable of just... not asking questions they really should be asking. Both shows make you weirdly implicated as an audience member and I didn't expect that from either of them.

The one thing I'll say is the script doesn't totally stick the landing. You keep waiting for the play to fully expose what's going on and it never quite does. Some people will love that ambiguity and some people will feel like they got shortchanged. I'm somewhere in the middle. But Finneran is so locked in that she carries you through even the moments where the writing leaves you hanging.

Oh and one more thing. Picked up the Playbill and flipped to the "How Many Have You Seen?" section. The Receptionist is sitting right there in the Broadway column next to Six, Wicked, Stranger Things, Two Strangers, etc. Off Broadway shows are clearly separated on the right side of the page. I noticed this same thing when I saw Rocky Horror a few weeks ago. But The Receptionist is very much an Off Broadway show at an Off Broadway house and apparently nobody told the Playbill ad team. Either that or Second Stage is putting it into the universe and I respect the confidence.

Go see it. Go in blind. Let Finneran's performance work on you. Just accept that you won't get everything tied up neatly at the end and you'll have a great time.

Welp, the 12pm public drop of season packages at the ART today just got a whole lot more interesting.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Diane-Paulus-Will-Direct-Immersive-David-Bowie-Inspired-LIFE-ON-MARS-at-American-Repertory-Theater-20260520

As someone who sees basically everything on and off-Broadway, and has been pathologically obsessed with a Canadian show about queer hockey players, I am very much the demographic for this show 😅

I normally never go to parody musicals, unless Titanique counts, but of course I had to get a ticket as soon as they were released.

First off, Jimin Moon and Jay Armstrong Johnson are so good. After seeing Jimin in Sunset Blvd., I already knew he was great, but Jay was definitely channeling those Tango de Roxanne opt-ups.

The book is simple, campy, and utterly silly, and I found myself laughing throughout the show. The Kip/Scott scene was chef’s kiss.

Not gonna lie, I actually found the songs better and catchier than a lot of shows I’ve seen recently, and everyone on that stage can saaaang.

One thing I found cringey and kind of icky, though, was that they use the audio from Connor’s YouTube video as a kid to basically say that Ilya is gay/bi. Yeah, I wasn’t cool with that.

The theatre is rather annoyingly located by the Zaha Hadid apartment building on the High Line, but holy legroom, Batman. Like, space for daaaays.

Oh, and there was an issue where the seat I purchased no longer existed once I checked in 😅 They have moved the house seats around and removed a few since tickets first went on sale, but they gave me a great seat, so no complaints.

If you are like me and are both a Heated Rivalry and musical theatre fan, definitely go, and if you haven’t seen Heated Rivalry yet… what are you waiting for?! Get to the cottage! 😂

So a little while ago, Ali Louis Bourzgui ( David from the Lost Boys) posted on his instagram story that if you miss him at the stage door, you could mail in your playbill and he will sign it. Has anyone done this, does anyone know if this is still a thing? I think he posted around May 3rd.

This is more out of curiosity, because i missed him at the stage door but plan to go again at some point to the Lost Boys

Let's settle it with a google form: https://forms.gle/zRX7w6MxfATGrv9X7