FAQs - For Audience Members

Taste of the Arts is a monthly drawing which audience members enter for a chance to win free tickets and dinner for two.

To enter the drawing, simply vote for the restaurants you most like to visit when seeing a show. Your vote helps identify the most popular restaurants, ensuring that Patron Rewards creates the greatest support possible for the arts.

Patron Rewards is a free program which supports the arts by rewarding families with tickets to performing arts events when they dine out at participating local restaurants.

By dining out, you can save on tickets, subscriptions, memberships or arts classes. In addition, we'll not only underwrite your tickets, but also donate funds to the arts organization of your choice.

Patron Rewards is effective because everybody wins:

• Audience members benefit from earning free or discounted tickets and subscriptions;
• Businesses now have a stronger economic incentive to support the arts because we make it profitable, not just philanthropic, to provide funding;
• And arts organizations gain a new source of support to underwrite audience participation and contributions.

Patron Rewards is simple. Sign up online by choosing your favorite restaurants and arts organizations.

Dine out to earn “Patron Points,” which you can quickly redeem for cash back on tickets, subscriptions, classes and memberships, or use to make a donation.

Whenever you dine, we also make a contribution to your favorite arts organizations.

Yes! Patron Rewards is completely free for audience members, and costs nothing to join or participate.

The program is funded by participating restaurants and retailers.

When members dine out, a percentage of each sale goes to underwrite the cost of attending your favorite arts organizations and events, as well as making a direct contribution to the arts organization of your choice.

Audience members earn Patron Points as a reward for dining out, and can use them to receive cash back on performing arts tickets, subscriptions, classes, memberships and donations.

Earn 10% of whatever you spend when you purchase a meal at participating restaurants. You can earn Patron Points even faster through bonus offers based on dining frequency and spending milestones.

To earn Patron Points, simply dine out at any participating restaurant. You can earn points even faster through bonus offers based on dining frequency and spending milestones.

The more you spend dining out, the more Patron Points you’ll earn.

In addition, as a cause marketing program, Patron Rewards makes a separate contribution to the arts anytime members dine out. These contributions do not affect your Patron Points balance.

You can redeem Patron Points to get cash back on tickets, subscriptions, classes and memberships at any enrolled arts organization. You can also donate points anytme to your favorite arts organizations.

In addition to underwriting your tickets, Patron Rewards makes a direct contribution to the arts when members dine out. These contributions do not affect your Patron Points balance.

Members can earn rewards very quickly. Dining out 2-4 times is usually enough to earn enough savings for a free ticket.

The exact number of dining occasions needed depends on the ticket price, and on how much you spend when dining out. If you don’t have enough Patron Points to match the full ticket cost, you can simply use them as a discount instead!

You may use your Patron Points for cash back savings at any participating arts organization.

Patron Rewards is coming soon to communities throughout the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area.

To be notified when the program becomes available, please enter our monthly "Taste of the Arts" drawing for a chance to win free theatre tickets and dinner for two.