Talks broke down
Sunday between striking Broadway stagehands and theater
producers, with the producers' league announcing it has
canceled performances through November 25, the
lucrative Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
''We are
profoundly disappointed to have to tell you that talks broke
off tonight and that no further negotiations are
scheduled,'' Charlotte St. Martin, the executive
director of the League of American Theatres and
Producers, said in a statement.
''Out of respect
for our public and our loyal theatergoers, many of whom
are traveling from around the world, we regret that we must
cancel performances through Sunday, November 25,'' she
added.
Local 1, the
stagehands' union, said through its spokesman Bruce Cohen,
that ''just before the talks broke off, the producers
informed the union that what the local had offered was
simply not enough.''
The union
declined further comment. (AP)
