Broadway Will Drop Mask Mandate Beginning July 1 - The New York Times

Broadway theaters will be allowed to drop their mask mandates starting July 1, the Broadway League announced Tuesday.

Some other performing arts venues, including many Off Broadway theaters, continue to ask for proof of vaccination and to mandate masks, and public transit in New York continues to require masks indoors, although compliance is dropping.

The nonprofit is continuing to maintain a mask mandate for its current Off Broadway shows.

The other nonprofits operating on Broadway, which plan to start shows in the fall, said it was too soon to know what their safety protocols would be then.

Jeffrey Eric Jenkins, a frequent Broadway theatergoer as a Tony voter and professor of theater studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said he would continue to wear a mask while seeing shows