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

Major productions such as Sydney’s Wicked could be targeted by union delegates amid a wage rise dispute between performers and producers. Photograph: Jeff Busby

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.