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arrow March 12th, 2020, the first night of Broadway going dark Gretchen Robinette / Gothamist
When Broadway went dark in March of 2020, there was still hope that the shutdown would be short-term. Now, nearly one year later, the pandemic rages on worldwide, and the Great White Way hasn t turned a single light back on.
The last update came in October of last year, when The Broadway League, the trade group representing theater owners and producers, made the announcement that Broadway s shutdown would last through at least May 2021, with shows possibly returning in the fall of this year. There have been no updates on a reopening timeline since, though Governor Andrew Cuomo has signaled that restarting that sector of the economy is a priority. Ahead of a recent launch of pop-up events around the state, he noted, There are venues that we want to start to reopening with testing and cap