playgoer

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The average Broadway playgoer attends nine shows per year; the average off-off-Broadway attendee attends 23, according to an unpublished 2015 study provided by the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2019

But at least for this stressed-out American playgoer, the greatest reassurance lay in shows that demonstrated live theater’s distinctive power to extract patterns from life’s chaos and to weave echoing dialogues from irreconcilable viewpoints.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2017

A playgoer is gratified to see how far out on a limb Artistic Director Michael Kahn is willing to go.

From Washington Post • May 25, 2016

But, whether you're a Goldman Sachs executive engaging in conspicuous consumption or a playgoer on a budget, people are spending money on Broadway.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2011

"You're merely a playgoer, then? Tell me, how did you like the play, a country lad like yourself?"

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood