The choice comes as New York Metropolis has reported a excessive stage of neighborhood unfold of COVID-19.
Broadway has prolonged its masks mandate for viewers members via June 30.
The choice comes as New York Metropolis reached a excessive COVID-19 alert stage this week attributable to an elevated stage of neighborhood unfold and elevated hospitalizations. That alert stage contains the advice that town authorities reinstate a requirement to put on face masks in all public indoor areas. Thus far, Mayor Eric Adams has stated he won't mandate masks.
“By sustaining our viewers masking requirement via June, we intend to proceed that monitor file of security for all, regardless of the Omicron subvariants,” stated Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin.
Right now’s announcement renews the forex coverage, which was set to run out Might 31. A call on mask-wearing for July and later months shall be introduced in June.
Viewers members have been required to put on masks on Broadway since July 2021. The mandate for proof of vaccination for viewers members, which was set on the similar time, was lifted at most Broadway theaters beginning Might 1.
The masks requirement has change into a hot-button situation on Broadway, because the business is likely one of the final within the metropolis to keep up the requirement. Final week, Patti LuPone, star of “Firm,” yelled at an viewers member throughout a post-show discuss again to pull their masks over their nostril or to go away the theater.