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How Horror Marketing Is Rewriting Broadway's Playbook
Musical TheatreTheatre3 min read5 days ago
Broadway's marketing teams are studying horror film campaigns to figure out how to sell shows in 2026. The insight is dark and specific: horror movies know how to build community around fear and anticipation in ways that traditional theater marketing has always failed to do. The parallel is stranger than it sounds, and it's working.