NEW YORK — Broadway has now been back for nine months. Well, back-ish.
After a 16-month COVID blackout, the Theater District began to tiptoe back last summer. Its return has come in fits and starts, with various virus variants raining on a parade of productions bold enough to brave the pandemic.
The reemergence of theater in New York has been thrilling for many. But it has also been uneven. Attendance dove in the winter, when omicron hit. Seemingly every show was scarred by large outbreaks. Playhouses collected dust.
