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r/Broadway is a place for fans of all kinds of theater to share their love of the performing arts. Founded 2009 · 580K members

581.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 20.4K upvotes, which works out to 35 per 1,000 members.

35peak upvotes per 1,000 members
581.4Kmembers
20.4Kbest post
3.2Kmost comments
407posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

34% 23% 18% 13%
Text 34% Image 23% Question 18% Link 13% Gallery 7% Video 6%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion 54 Seating/Ticket Question 20 Which show to see? 19 Casting/Show News 17 Other 14 Special Events 13 Off-Broadway 12 Review 8 Theater or Audience Experience 8 Regional/Touring Production 7

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Guy went absolutely ballistic on the people sitting behind him at tonight’s Mamma Mia

↑ 20.4K 💬 3.2K video 2026

Cabaret 👀

↑ 15.4K 💬 605 image 2025

Did I do wrong? My husband was embarrassed that I dressed up as Wednesday Addams for a community theatre production of the Addams Family. I ran into …

↑ 15.2K 💬 1.6K image 2025

I'd love to know which of Charlie Kirk's perspectives Kristin Chenoweth appreciated before I decide to buy tickets to Queen of Versailles

↑ 9.8K 💬 532 image 2025

Mamma Mia Upset Uncle Story Continues

↑ 8.9K 💬 713 text 2026

You can no longer deny that buying Cursed Child tickets harms trans people.

↑ 8.8K 💬 534 link 2025

With the recent news that ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ is getting a new version, I just want to remind everyone how your ticket money is going…

↑ 8.6K 💬 752 image 2024

Spotted in Times Square today

↑ 8K 💬 53 image 2025

Issa Rae has cancelled her sold-out ‘An Evening With Issa Rae’ event at the Kennedy Center next month

↑ 7.4K 💬 223 image 2025

Tapped some guy on shoulder and asked him to take a pic for me. He took a selfie on my phone. Srsly how rude. Who does that? jerk.

↑ 6.3K 💬 160 gallery 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Broadway, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Broadway?
r/Broadway describes itself this way: r/Broadway is a place for fans of all kinds of theater to share their love of the performing arts. It was founded in 2009 and has 580K members.
How many members does r/Broadway have?
r/Broadway has about 581.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 407 of its posts; the biggest reached 20.4K upvotes, which is 35 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Broadway?
"Guy went absolutely ballistic on the people sitting behind him at tonight’s Mamma Mia" reached 20.4K upvotes and 3.2K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Broadway.
What subreddits are similar to r/Broadway?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/asheville.
What kind of posts do best on r/Broadway?
Of the posts we hold, 34% are text posts and 23% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Broadway?
Across 407 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 20:00 UTC (5.2K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 23:00 UTC (4.5K avg upvotes), Sunday at 02:00 UTC (3.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Broadway?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Broadway has 4.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 147 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Broadway, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.