Broadway on the Brink of a Shutdown

New York Times Blog: "As of Tuesday evening, the League of American Theaters and Producers, which represents most of Broadway’s producers and theater owners, and the stagehands’ union were at an impasse, making a lockout highly likely. A lockout would affect all the shows currently on Broadway except for four — “Mary Poppins,” “Pygmalion,” “Mauritius” and “The Ritz” — that are playing at nonleague theaters. As Campbell Robertson reports, it would be the second work stoppage on Broadway in less than five years. The musicians’ strike in 2003, which lasted for four days, was the first time in nearly 30 years that Broadway was shut down by a labor dispute."