Theatregoers to be petitioned outside Australian venues amid ongoing actors’ pay dispute

Major productions to be targeted after talks over wage rise break down between performers' union and peak producers body

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Theatregoers can expect to be leafletted by union delegates outside Australian performance venues in the new year, in a campaign to lift the pay of about 6,000 actors and dancers.

Major productions such as Beauty and the Beast and Wicked in Sydney, and Moulin Rouge and Grease in Melbourne could be targeted, along with a slew of Adelaide and Sydney festival performances and productions by the country's flagship theatre companies.