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The Kite Runner on Broadway is running a special masks-only performance on Friday nights, starting with its August 19 show.<\/p>\n
It will be the first production on Broadway to embrace this kind of hybrid policy surrounding mask-wearing, while other theatres across New York have adopted an optional approach.<\/p>\n
Patrons will have the option of wearing masks for performances of The Kite Runner on other days of the week.<\/p>\n
Producer Victoria Lang said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter<\/a>: \u201cWe have received feedback from some theatregoers who remain cautious about being in an audience with non-masked patrons, as well as others who are still immunocompromised.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to give everyone the opportunity to see The Kite Runner and are offering this option to accommodate them.\u201d<\/p>\n The mask-wearing Friday nights will remain in place through The Kite Runner\u2019s limited run at Hayes Theater, which ends on October 30.<\/p>\n Announced by trade association The Broadway League last month, optional mask-wearing will remain in effect at Broadway venues, though each production is able to set its own COVID-19 policies.<\/p>\n Before then, The Broadway League had put an industry-wide mandate in place on mask-wearing, which had been in effect since July 2021.<\/p>\n