UPDATE 7: Fans will need to repurchase tickets

UPDATE 6: Event moved to new location

UPDATE 5: Lincoln Center Releases Update

UPDATE 4: (10:25) The website now says “We’re Sorry! Tickets are no longer available online for this event. Please contact our box office to get up-to-the-minute ticket availability information.” The numbers for the box office are at the bottom of this post. Keep checking the site though, tickets may keep popping back up throughout the day!

UPDATE 3: (10:20) There is a new purchasing link for the tickets: click here to buy!

UPDATE 2: It is now 10:13 am and I just checked the website to see if tickets were back online. As of right now I am still getting an error message when trying to select tickets. I will keep checking and let you know when they are back. Be sure to follow our Twitter as well for updates!

UPDATE: Thanks to the Little Brown Company (J.K. Rowling’s publisher) we can confirm that tickets will still be available at the Lincoln Center Box office and over the phone, starting at 10am, as we predicted last night. It also seems that they caught on to the glitch last night and stopped offering tickets before the event sold out completely. They should be online at 10am.


Tickets for J.K. Rowling’s chat with Ann Patchett in New York City went on sale 12 hours early, much to fans delight (and dismay for some.) After a little over an hour the tickets are sold out. Though the site says there are 8 tickets left, fans are met with an error when trying to purchase tickets.

Tickets were supposed to be available for purchase from 10am on September 10th.  Fans can only hope that the folks at Lincoln Center reserved a certain number of tickets for those who wanted to purchase by phone or in person at Lincoln Center. About 1200 people can be fit into the Rose Theater, where the event is taking place.

The event will be held at 8pm on Tuesday, October 18th.  During the chat she will talk about her new book, The Casual Vacancy, out September 27th.  She will also be taking a few questions from the audience.  The book is included with your ticket and, according to Fox News, J.K. will be signing copies of the book. As of yet it is not known how this will work.

Were you able to snag tickets?!  Luckily I was able to, but there is another problem with ticketing. Some seat numbers can possibly be in two or even three sections. I am currently trying to find out how fans can figure out whether they are sitting in the Balcony, Mezzanine, or Orchestra section and will update if/when I find out.

Ticketing information in case you missed it the first time around:

  • $43 if purchased online
  • $44 if purchased via phone:
    CenterCharge: 212.721.6500
    TTY: 212.957.1709
    Open daily 10:00 am–9:00 pm
  • $37 if purchased at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office:
    Broadway at 60th Street
    Monday–Saturday: 10:00 am–6:00 pm, Sunday: noon–6:00 pm
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