Broadway attendance recovers to pre-pandemic levels

Attendance figures for New York City's Broadway theaters rose about 45% this past season compared to the year before, indicating a return to pre-pandemic levels, according to numbers released Tuesday.

For the 2022-23 season, Broadway attendance reached 12.28 million, according to the Broadway League, a trade association for the theater industry. The season, which ran from May 2022 to April 2023, marked the first full season since Broadway returned from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Those numbers were a significant increase from the shortened 2021-22 season, which saw attendance reach 6.73 million, the Broadway League reported.