Mirvish delays subscription season until January

The show won’t go on until January for Mirvish Productions.

Although businesses elsewhere in the city could gradually begin reopening as early as next month, Mirvish is delaying its subscription season until the new year, it announced Monday.

Traditionally, the new season would have started in September, “but an entire season of shows takes a lot of planning and coordination with hundreds and hundreds of theatre professionals from around the world,” David Mirvish said in a news release. “For the health and safety of all the artists, crew and staff working in our theatres, and for that of our audience, I think it is best to begin our new season … in January of the new year,” he said.

The only possible exception to that would be the musical “Come From Away” — but only if “public health officials deem that it is safe to reopen theatres sooner than January,” Mirvish said. “We will not do anything that will jeopardize anyone’s health and safety.”

Mirvish had already closed its theatres until June 30, and cancelled or postponed productions that were due to play this summer and fall, including “Les Misérables” and the Canadian debut of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”

The six-show season that begins in January will include the Canadian premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Love Never Dies”; “Pressure,” the new drama by David Haig; the new musical “& Juliet,” written by Canadian David West Read; a radical revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”; a new stage adaptation of “Murder on the Orient Express”; and the Canadian premiere of “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

See mirvish.com for more information.