Caps in theaters
Caps in theaters
Caps in theaters #1
Posted: 5/24/26 at 4:34pm
A definite trend that I noticed on this theater trip is audience members not removing their baseball caps. Last night at the Hayes, I counted six people (5 men, 1 woman) in just my row and the row in front of me who kept their caps on throughout the show. It doesn’t necessarily block views (although I did ask one person at a show last week to remove theirs, since they were wearing it with the bill pointed up and it did interfere with sightlines…they looked at me like I was nuts but complied), but I’m from a generation where the rule was that you took your hat/cap off indoors, and particularly at the theater. Am I just out of touch, or is this another example of declining audience behavior? Does this bother anyone else?
Updated On: 5/24/26 at 04:34 PM
Caps in theaters #2
Posted: 5/24/26 at 5:06pm
Obviously I'd be bothered if a hat blocks someone's view. Otherwise, I cannot possibly overstate how little I care what other people choose to wear, at the theater or anywhere else.
Stand-by Joined: 5/19/20
Caps in theaters #3
Posted: 5/24/26 at 5:07pm
Not to be rude, but out of touch. If it's blocking your view, that's 100% fair, otherwise who cares. Like the content on stage changes to reflect the world, society and attitudes change. No offense to you, but I'm confused how people who can appreciate art, which is constantly in flux, can also seem confused when society is.
Caps in theaters #4
Posted: 5/24/26 at 5:58pm
It's a generational thing. I have never nor ever will wear a cap inside a theater. My mother would reach down from heaven and knock it off my head if I did! I was raised that you didn't wear caps indoors at a lot of places.
With that said, I don't mind them in a theater unless they are obstructing my view. I have asked a few people over the years in front of me to remove them. But along with society's "flux" it isn't just wearing a hat inside but it is also, as the OP mentioned, the attitude you can now get when you ask someone to remove it because it is obstructing your view of the stage. JMO
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
Caps in theaters #5
Posted: 5/24/26 at 6:18pm
The unofficial rules of the theater to me are be clean, be quiet, and no screens. Tons of people wear baseball hats in the theater and they obstruct absolutely nothing, so I don't see the issue besides you wanting to control people by deciding the proper etiquette of total strangers. That guy looked at you like you were crazy because it's an exceptionally weird thing to ask.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
Caps in theaters #6
Posted: 5/24/26 at 6:23pm
I went to see a show where a man wore a baseball cap loosely sitting atop his head, not fitted to his head. It absolutely blocked the view of myself and the woman next to me, who I did not know. I guess we're all nuts because the queen of mean says so.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
Caps in theaters #8
Posted: 5/24/26 at 9:07pm
People are slobs. Yeah, yeah, I know. People want to be comfortable. People can wear what they want. It’s none of my business. Again, people are slobs.
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