Theatre box office in Washington DC was down 1.2 percent last year, an improvement from the 8.5 percent drop the season before. “There were 1,929,826 theatergoing derrieres in seats last year, at 7,354 performances of 402 productions. In 2005, there were 1,952,405 attendees at 348 productions. While attendance dropped in 2006, the number of productions went up nearly 14 percent.”