Mirvish Productions

Producer: David Mirvish

Executive Producer: Brian Sewell

Mirvish Productions is a Canadian theatre management and production company, based in Toronto, founded by David Mirvish in 1987.

David’s father, Ed Mirvish, had made headlines in 1963 when he purchased and saved from demolition Toronto’s historic Royal Alexandra Theatre, one of the oldest and most famous legitimate theatres in North America. For the next 24 years, Ed Mirvish operated the Royal Alexandra – as it had been operated for most of its history – primarily as a “road house”, staging short-run touring productions from London and New York and renting the space to local theatre groups, the Canadian Opera Co. and the National Ballet. In 1987, David Mirvish assumed the responsibility for the family’s theatrical interests and created Mirvish Productions for the purpose of producing original plays and musicals, employing Canadian talent, for the Royal Alexandra’s stage, as well as co-producing with such regional Canadian theatres as the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival, the Manitoba Theatre Centre and the Citadel Theatre and bringing their works to Toronto.

Among the notable early Mirvish-produced and co-produced shows seen at the Royal Alexandra were Brian Macdonald’s acclaimed staging of Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore; the world tour of the English Shakespeare Company’s Henry IV and Henry V;Sweet Bird of Youth, with Joanne Woodward; Spoils of War, with Kate Nelligan (in her first Canadian stage appearance); Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, the first native Canadian play to receive a major commercial production in Canada; the world premiere musical Jane Eyre, which subsequently moved to Broadway; and the wildly popular Toronto production and national tours of Les Misérables.

In 1991, in response to increased ticket demand, Mirvish Productions established a subsidiary company, TicketKing, to act as a ticketing agent and provide a telephone sales service to complement the theatre ticket window. TicketKing has subsequently evolved into an online sales service, providing an internet box office not only to Mirvish Productions, but to many smaller Toronto theatre companies, as well.

In 1993, Mirvish Productions took over responsibility for a second Toronto theatre when Ed and David Mirvish built the Princess of Wales, a luxurious 2000-seat venue two blocks to the west of the Royal Alexandra (and the first privately financed legitimate theatre to be built in North America in more than 30 years). The Princess of Wales opened in 1993 with the box office record-breaking Mirvish co-production (in partnership with London producer Cameron Mackintosh) of the musical Miss Saigon. The two theatres formed the centre around which Toronto’s “Entertainment District” has since grown.

The Mirvish theatre family doubled in size in 2008 when the company purchased two Yonge Street venues, the 2300-seat Canon Theatre (a 1920s vaudeville and motion picture house) and the intimate, new, 700-seat Panasonic Theatre.

Mirvish Productions is, today, Canada’s largest commercial theatre production company. Its offices are located at 284 King St. West – beside the Princess of Wales Theatre – in Toronto.

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Website

https://www.mirvish.com

Venues

The Royal Alexandra Theatre
CAA Theatre
The Princess of Wales Theatre
CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre

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Produced by Mirvish Productions

SIX	September 23rd, 2023 – May 26th, 2024
Things I Know to be True	February 1st, 2023 – February 19th, 2023
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child	May 31st, 2022
Piaf/Dietrich	September 17th, 2019 – January 5th, 2020
Come From Away	February 5th, 2019 – December 1st, 2019
The Bodyguard	February 11th, 2017 – May 14th, 2017
The Audience	January 17th, 2017 – January 26th, 2017
Seminar	November 14th, 2015 – December 6th, 2015
Kinky Boots	June 28th, 2015 – May 15th, 2016
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike	March 15th, 2015 – April 5th, 2015
Once	February 10th, 2015 – June 28th, 2015
The Heart of Robin Hood	December 23rd, 2014 – March 1st, 2015
The Two Worlds of Charlie F.	February 25th, 2014 – March 9th, 2014
Les Misérables	September 27th, 2013 – February 2nd, 2014
The Wizard of Oz	January 13th, 2013 – August 18th, 2013
War Horse	February 28th, 2012 – January 6th, 2013
2 Pianos 4 Hands	October 29th, 2011 – January 5th, 2012
Chess: The Musical	September 24th, 2011 – October 30th, 2011
Women Fully Clothed in Older & Hotter	June 14th, 2011 – June 19th, 2011
Calendar Girls	April 15th, 2011 – May 28th, 2011
Priscilla: Queen of the Desert	October 12th, 2010 – January 2nd, 2011
How Now Mrs. Brown Cow!	August 19th, 2010 – September 4th, 2010
A Jew Grows In Brooklyn	April 28th, 2010 – May 16th, 2010
Grease	April 7th, 2010 – April 28th, 2010
Cloud 9	January 19th, 2010 – February 21st, 2010
Rent	January 12th, 2010 – January 24th, 2010
Fiddler on the Roof	December 8th, 2009 – January 10th, 2009
My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding	November 7th, 2009 – April 11th, 2009
The Boys In The Photograph	September 22nd, 2009 – November 1st, 2009
The Color Purple	February 10th, 2009 – March 15th, 2009
The Sound of Music	October 15th, 2008 – January 3rd, 2010
We Will Rock You	July 16th, 2008 – June 28th, 2009
Dirty Dancing	October 31st, 2007 – March 29th, 2009

Presented by Mirvish Productions

The Thanksgiving Play	September 27th, 2024 – October 20th, 2024
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead	March 5th, 2024 – April 6th, 2024
Uncle Vanya	February 2nd, 2024 – February 25th, 2024
Indecent	October 14th, 2022 – November 6th, 2022
Hamilton	February 11th, 2020 – March 14th, 2020
Anastasia	December 3rd, 2019 – January 12th, 2020
Girl From The North Country	September 28th, 2019 – November 24th, 2019
The Band’s Visit	September 17th, 2019 – October 20th, 2019
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical	April 9th, 2019 – May 5th, 2019
Jersey Boys	March 5th, 2019 – March 17th, 2019
Oslo	February 9th, 2019 – March 3rd, 2019
Come From Away	February 5th, 2019 – December 1st, 2019
Bigmouth	January 19th, 2019 – February 7th, 2019
Ain’t Too Proud	October 11th, 2018 – November 17th, 2018
Fun Home	April 13th, 2018 – May 20th, 2018
An American in Paris	March 27th, 2018 – April 29th, 2018
King Charles III	February 10th, 2018 – March 4th, 2018
Salt-Water Moon	October 12th, 2017 – October 29th, 2017
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	October 10th, 2017 – November 19th, 2017
North by Northwest	September 19th, 2017
Butcher	March 25th, 2017 – April 9th, 2017
Mrs. Henderson Presents	March 15th, 2017 – April 23rd, 2017
The Book of Mormon	February 28th, 2017 – April 16th, 2017
Cabaret	February 14th, 2017 – February 19th, 2017
The Bodyguard	February 11th, 2017 – May 14th, 2017
My Night With Reg	February 10th, 2017 – February 26th, 2017
Come From Away	November 15th, 2016 – January 8th, 2017
Fight Night	November 4th, 2016 – November 20th, 2016
Cuisine & Confessions	November 1st, 2016 – December 4th, 2016
Graeme of Thrones	October 11th, 2016 – October 23rd, 2016
Roald Dahl’s Matilda: The Musical	July 5th, 2016 – January 7th, 2017
A Gentleman’s Guide To Love & Murder	May 25th, 2016 – June 24th, 2016
If/Then	April 12th, 2016 – May 8th, 2016
Disgraced	April 3rd, 2016 – April 24th, 2016
The Judas Kiss	March 22nd, 2016 – May 1st, 2016
Gaslight	January 17th, 2016 – February 28th, 2016
Newsies	July 8th, 2015 – August 30th, 2015
Blithe Spirit	February 11th, 2015 – March 15th, 2015
Buyer & Cellar	November 12th, 2014 – November 30th, 2014
Arcadia	November 4th, 2014 – December 14th, 2014
The Boy with Tape on his Face	October 1st, 2014 – October 19th, 2014
Julie Madly Deeply	September 30th, 2014 – October 19th, 2014
The Book of Mormon	September 16th, 2014 – November 30th, 2014
Our Country’s Good	September 12th, 2014 – October 26th, 2014
Wicked	September 3rd, 2014 – November 2nd, 2014
Dead Metaphor	May 20th, 2014 – June 8th, 2014
The Lion King	April 30th, 2014 – June 15th, 2014
The Last Confession	April 19th, 2014 – June 1st, 2014
Metamorphosis	January 28th, 2014 – March 9th, 2014
The Musical of Musicals: The Musical!	December 18th, 2013 – January 12th, 2014
Once	November 26th, 2013 – January 6th, 2014
God of Carnage	November 23rd, 2013 – December 15th, 2013
Aladdin	November 1st, 2013 – January 12th, 2014
Puppet Up! – Uncensored	October 22nd, 2013 – November 3rd, 2013
I Love Lucy Live on Stage	October 15th, 2013 – November 3rd, 2013
Anything Goes	July 16th, 2013 – August 25th, 2013
The Book of Mormon	April 30th, 2013 – June 9th, 2013
Dancing With Rage	March 5th, 2013 – March 24th, 2013
Clybourne Park	February 12th, 2013 – March 3rd, 2013
Without You	December 13th, 2012 – January 6th, 2013
Terminus	November 21st, 2012 – December 9th, 2012
Jekyll & Hyde	November 14th, 2012 – November 18th, 2012
La Cage Aux Folles	October 10th, 2012 – November 18th, 2012
Bloodless: The Trial of Burke and Hare	October 9th, 2012 – October 28th, 2012
Sister Act	October 4th, 2012 – November 2nd, 2012
Potted Potter	February 14th, 2012 – April 8th, 2012
Hair	December 13th, 2011 – December 31st, 2011
Mary Poppins	November 10th, 2011 – January 8th, 2012
Fela!	October 25th, 2011 – November 6th, 2011
Private Lives	September 16th, 2011 – October 30th, 2011
Wishful Drinking	July 12th, 2011 – August 21st, 2011
The Railway Children	May 3rd, 2011 – August 14th, 2011
Ghost Stories	April 1st, 2011 – May 29th, 2011
Good Mourning Mrs. Brown	March 8th, 2011 – March 19th, 2011
Billy Elliot: The Musical	March 1st, 2011 – September 3rd, 2011
The Secret Garden	February 13th, 2011 – March 20th, 2011
Wingfield Lost & Found	January 12th, 2011 – January 30th, 2011
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum	December 15th, 2010 – January 16th, 2011
Wicked	October 20th, 2010 – November 28th, 2010
Rock of Ages	April 20th, 2010 – January 2nd, 2011
Little House On The Prairie	January 28th, 2010 – February 28th, 2010
Stuff Happens	November 14th, 2009 – December 23rd, 2009
August: Osage County	November 5th, 2009 – November 15th, 2009
The Harder They Come	June 21st, 2009 – August 23rd, 2009
Riverdance	May 19th, 2009 – June 21st, 2009
Spring Awakening	March 17th, 2009 – April 19th, 2009
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang	December 24th, 2008 – January 4th, 2009
A Chorus Line	October 29th, 2008 – November 30th, 2008
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	November 7th, 2007 – December 9th, 2007
The Phantom of the Opera	February 21st, 2007 – June 17th, 2007
Wicked	October 10th, 2006 – December 31st, 2006

Current Staff

David Mirvish	Producer
Brian Sewell	Executive Producer
David Mucci	Director of Operations
Camillo Casciato	Director of Finance
John Karastamatis	Director of Communications
Kelly Robinson	Director of Development
Jim Valentine	Director of Sales
Scot Whitham	Director of Production
Mark Lavaway	Director of Labour Relations & Human Resources
Yuliya Timurshina	Human Resources Intern
Linda Intaschi	Associate Producer
Rachael Mirvish	Associate Producer
Sarah Sisko	Assistant Producer
Charles Chu	Associate General Manager
Anika Nater	Company Management Assistant
Hannah Mirvish	General Management Associate
Chris Prideaux	Production Manager
Nathan Giles	Production Manager
Desirée Proveau	Production Administrator
Chris Dorscht	Senior Marketing Mana
Sue Toth	Communications Manager
J. Randy Alldread	Press & Public Relations Manager
Michael Taylor	Marketing Manager
Aubrey Stork	Online Marketing Manager
Jennifer Jenkins	Web Designer
Tristan Gough	Videographer
Nik Murillo	Marketing Intern
Josie Di Luzio	IT Manager
Charles Barthmann	System Administrator
Phillip Drew	System Administrator
Katharine Posavad	System Administrator
Reg Duncan	Analyst/Accounting Manager
Jason Yip	Controller
Tina Marshall	Accountant
Raquel Frost	Show Accountant
Julie Logan	Accounting Staff
Kim Situ	Accounting Staff
Lillian Siu	Payroll
Laurel Purvis	Assistant to David Mirvish
David Linton	Subscriptions Operations Manager
Gerard Raju	Subscriptions Services Manager
Paulyn Raman	Associate Manager, Subscriptions Operations
Sandra Quiteria	General Sales Manager
Maryanne Terzis	Market Development Manager
Dave Pelley	Customer Service Co-ordinator
Denise Anderson	Education Co-ordinator
Nelia Baird	Group Sales Co-ordinator
Ganth Mayathiraviam	Group Sales Co-ordinator
Karen Moran	Group Sales Co-ordinator
Abigail Kell	Group Sales Liason
Áine Davis	Office Coordinator (2020-)

Former staff

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