Talks resume as Broadway actors consider a strike
Source: NPR
October 8, 202511:21 AM ET
By Jennifer Vanasco
The union representing Broadway actors and stage managers is resuming negotiations Wednesday in order to try to head off a strike.
The main sticking point between Actors' Equity Association, the union representing performers and stage managers, and The Broadway League, which represents theater producers and owners, is health care.
About 900 Broadway Equity performers and stage managers have been working without a contract since it expired on Sept. 28. A strike would shutter about 26 Broadway productions. Five shows — Punch, Ragtime, Mamma Mia, Little Bear Ridge Road and Beetlejuice — would stay open, because they operate under different contracts.
Purple Rain, the stage adaptation of Prince's film that's about to open in Minneapolis and heading for Broadway, would also shut down.
A curtain call during a performance of Hamilton on Broadway at Richard Rodgers Theatre on Sept. 9, 2025 in New York City. The union representing Broadway actors and stage managers says it is getting close to a strike.
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