'The Pitt' star slams 'disrespectful' Broadway audience members

Brendan Morrow, USA TODAYMon, May 4, 2026 at 3:15 PM UTC

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Isa Briones is stepping up her campaign against poor theater etiquette.

The "Pitt" star, 27, took to Instagram to speak out against fans shouting out references to the HBO Max medical drama while in the audience of her Broadway musical "Just In Time."

"Once again, Broadway is not a circus," Briones wrote in a since-expired Instagram story, according to Variety and The Guardian. "Do not yell whatever you want at the performers. Yelling 'when are you going to finish your charts' before I sing 'Who's Sorry Now' is so (expletive) disrespectful to the performers onstage and your fellow audience members."

She added, "Love and light and please remember you are occupying shared spaces and watching art."

Isa Briones attends the Actor Awards on March 1, 2026, in Los Angeles.

Briones is best known for her role on the Emmy-winning series "The Pitt" as Trinity Santos, who in Season 2 is a second-year resident at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center.

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Since April, she has been playing the role of Connie Francis in the jukebox musical "Just in Time," which also stars Jeremy Jordan as singer Bobby Darin. The actress previously made her Broadway debut in 2024 as Eurydice in the Tony-winning musical "Hadestown."

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This isn't Briones' first time speaking up about bad behavior in the audience. In April, she posted an Instagram story about how "some people need to brush up on theater etiquette."

"Do not talk to the performers while they are performing on stage (unless you have been asked to)," she wrote. "And don't talk to me on stage and call me Dr. Santos. I'm not Dr. Santos. I'm not even Connie Francis. I am Isa Briones, one of the actors in the show you have paid to enjoy. So watch it respectfully. You are not a kid at Disneyland. You are an adult man at a Broadway show. Act like it."

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In an April interview with Rolling Stone, Briones said she joined "Just In Time" because "theater makes me so happy, and I love getting to take a break from TV and from 'The Pitt' to do something that feels so different and so joyous."

She also shared in the interview that since the success of "The Pitt," she has had to get used to fans yelling "Santos!" at her in public, something she noted once happened when she was on stage.

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Isa Briones attends the premiere of "The Pitt" on Jan. 7, 2026, in Los Angeles.

"When ['The Pitt'] started becoming big, I was like, 'Oh, God, I think I'm that person with the hat and the sunglasses.' I used to laugh at that," she told Rolling Stone. "Now I kind of get it. It's so annoying. But I'm figuring it out."

Patrick Ball, who plays Frank Langdon on "The Pitt," is also currently starring on Broadway in "Becky Shaw." "The Pitt" star Noah Wyle told USA TODAY in April, "Like half of our cast is on Broadway right now, which is pretty incredible."

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