Will broadway or west end open first

The Mousetrap is still set to re-open in less than three months, so atm it's definitely the West End.

Updated On: 8/1/20 at 12:29 AM

Socially-distanced indoor performances were supposed to be allowed to go ahead from today, but yesterday the UK government postponed this until mid-August at the earliest, so who knows?

I do believe there will be some indoor shows opening in London by the end of the year, but don't expect a full reopening until early 2021. Even the ones that are currently scheduled (Mousetrap, Prince of Egypt) are subject to change if infections rise again in the Autumn, which experts say is likely.

I get the feeling that the wheels of reopening are more in motion in London than in New York though.

You didn't miss a thing, those cowards have been stunningly silent. The West End has stepped up and protected their workers, I have so much respect for the way they handled it.

Broadway61004 said: "I feel as though West End is going to open much more sporadically than Broadway. So The Mousetrap, for instance, is currently scheduled to reopen this fall, but it's quite likely some of the bigger musicals may not be back until next summer. Whereas with Broadway, it certainly seems like it's much more likely to be everything reopening at once (meaning the ones that are going to resume performances--not necessarily every theatre being filled with a show right off the bat). So I would say West End will begin to reopen first, but we may see Broadway reopened before all of the West End shows are, since it will be a much more gradual process of resuming theatre there."

Broadway will also likely have a sporadic reopening spread across several dates in 2021. It was reported by The New York Times once the shutdown extended past New Year's Day.