The union representing Broadway actors and stage managers is resuming negotiations Wednesday in order to try to head off a strike.

The main sticking point between Actors' Equity Association , the union representing performers and stage managers, and The Broadway League , which represents theater producers and owners, is health care.

About 900 Broadway Equity performers and stage managers have been working without a contract since it expired on Sept. 28. A strike would shutter about 26 Broadway productions. Five shows — Punch , Ragtime , Mamma Mia , Little Bear Ridge Road and Beetlejuice — would stay open, because they operate under different contracts.

Purple Rain , the stage adaptation of Prince's film that's about to open in Minneapolis and heading for Broadway, would a

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