The Broadway League, the national trade association for the Broadway industry, has released end-of-season statistics for the 2024-2025 Broadway season. The season encompassed 53 weeks, beginning on May 20, 2024 and ending on May 25, 2025. As the annual statistical record of the industry, a Broadway season usually comprises 52 weeks; however, due to variances in the calendar, an extra week is added every seven years to maintain the June-to-May structure. The 2024-2025 season grossed $1,892,650,959. This marks a 23% increase from the total gross of the 52-week 2023-2024 season; moreover, the $1.9 billion signifies the highest-grossing season in recorded history, besting 2018-2019 ($1.8 billion), the previous record holder.
In terms of attendance, there were 14,658,531 admissions to Broadway shows in 2024-2025, a 19.3% increase from 2023-2024. This tally is ever so slightly below (down 0.7%) the 14.8 million admissions welcomed during the 2018-2019 season; 2024-2025 is now the second best attended season on record. This is also only the second season in history when attendance has surpassed 14 million.
This season also achieved an unusual feat: 2024-2025 had the most consecutive weeks of weekly attendance surpassing 300,000 on record. Reaching this attendance benchmark is significant, as it often happens only a handful of times per season (usually once or twice during the high-tourist weeks surrounding a major holiday or school vacation). However, earlier in the 2024-2025 season, Broadway’s box office had eight consecutive weeks of 300,000+ weekly admissions (from the week ending Nov. 10 through Dec. 29, 2024), and, more recently, nine consecutive weeks (from the week ending March 30 through May 25, 2025). The highest number of consecutive 300,000+ weeks achieved before was five, which occurred twice during the 2018-2019 season and once during 2017-2018.
Capacity-wise, available seats across the last 12 months were filled 91.2%, which is up from both 2023-2024 (89.6%) and the aforementioned 2018-2019 season (89.8%).
Also buoying these totals was the number of playing weeks; this season clocked 1,712 playing weeks (up from 1,471 in 2023-2024). A separate measure of the industry’s health, playing weeks represent the overall number of weeks of performance logged by all productions during the season.
These totals mark the most robust since Broadway reopened following the pandemic. “There is so much to celebrate about the 2024-2025 season,” League president Jason Laks said in a statement. “Looking back, it was never a given that audiences would return to their seats or that every theater’s lights would come back up. It has taken the hard work and imagination of thousands and thousands of dreamers and doers to bring the magic of Broadway back.”
However, Laks notes that these significant figures also come with caution.
“As we look to next season, we have to be sober about the challenges Broadway faces. We can’t be satisfied with 2019’s definition of success anymore. With rising costs hitting every facet of production, it is becoming harder and harder to bring live theater to the stage. Shows today have an ever shorter window to get on their feet. The investment that fuels Broadway is something we can’t ever take for granted. As a community and [an] industry, we have a lot of work ahead of us to meet these challenges by growing audiences and addressing costs so we can sustain this cultural treasure and economic engine.”
In the 2024-2025 season, 43 new productions opened: 21 musicals, 21 plays and one special event/concert.
