Posted May 23, 2023 8:45 am ET
David Mirvish speaks before the cast performs a song from Mirvish’s “Come From Away” while holding a meet and greet as they prepare for the musical’s early 2018 opening on Thursday, November 30, 2017 in Toronto. Canada’s largest theater company has unveiled its lineup for the 2023-24 Off-Mirvish season, featuring four critically acclaimed plays. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette)
Four reimagined interpretations of classic plays will make up the program for the 2023-24 Off-Mirvish season at Canada’s largest theater company.
Mirvish Productions says Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill The Nightingale will have its Canadian premiere on November 21-27 at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theater and is coming to the company straight from Broadway.
Pride and Prejudice*, the five-star Olivier Award-winning West End director’s comedy from London’s West End, follows at the CAA Theater from December 14th to January 7th and features an adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel.
From February 2nd to 25th, theater fans can see the acclaimed production of Uncle Vanya at Crow’s Theatre, which Mirvish says has previously been extended but wasn’t long enough.
The Neptune Theater’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead will conclude the program March 5-24.
Mirvish says the comedy puts the spotlight on two minor characters from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet for whom there are no rules but one: they are destined to die.
“With productions from Toronto, Halifax, Broadway and London’s West End, this off-Mirvish program showcases the best of four major English-speaking communities,” said producer David Mirvish in a press release.
“It’s also a season of classics reinterpreted. Two classics of literature are newly adapted for the stage. And two classics of 20th-century theater are being breathed new life into.”
This report from The Canadian Press was first published on May 23, 2023.
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