IATSE, Local 8, Stage Hands and Philadelphia Theatre Company Strike Continues – Stage Production Suffers - 15th Day

The current labor conflict between IATSE, Local 8 and PTC, Suzanne Roberts Theatre, entered into its 15^th day.  Demonstrations continue to take place at the theater, at Board member’s homes and through social media venues directed at Board members places of business.  Management and Labor have been attempting to negotiate an initial contract since September, 2012.  The last publicized negotiations were on Sunday, January 20, 2013, which lasted 6 hours.   No tentative agreement was reached at that time and no publicized negotiating sessions have been scheduled since that date.

Media reviews indicate that “the production is missing much of the vital stagecraft required by Hall’s script.”  “Because of this absence of staging, we in Philadelphia won’t know all the power that lies within “The Mountaintop.”