Broadway Producers, Stagehands Talk New Contract

Coming off of several record box office years on Broadway, producers and stagehands are negotiating a new contract. “Producers want to rewrite provisions that they say inflate the price of capitalizing and running shows by at least 15 percent. Bruce Cohen, a spokesman for Local 1, declined to comment on specifics of the negotiations. However, stagehands have insisted that they are determined to protect terms of the contract that were hard-won during previous negotiations.”