On 8 February 2011, Mirvish Productions announced a Toronto run of the U. K. touring production arriving in September 2011.

* Toronto has a large and vibrant theatre scene, with many different companies, some producing large-scale Broadway-style productions ( produced by companies like Mirvish Productions ), and others producing smaller-scale plays by Canadian and other playwrights.

In 2009, My Mother's Lesbian Jewish-Wiccan Wedding was picked up by Mirvish Productions from the festival and opened only 3 months later at Toronto's Panasonic Theatre.

Producers included Bette Midler, Liz Koops and Garry McQuinn for Back Row Productions, Michael Hamlyn for Specific Films, Allan Scott Productions, David Mirvish, Roy Furman, Terry Allen Kramer, James L. Nederlander, and Terri and Timothy Childs.

Since 1986, the theatre has been managed and operated by Mirvish Productions, the theatre production company headed by Ed's son, David Mirvish.

In 1986, David Mirvish created the company Mirvish Productions to produce original, " sit-down " plays and musicals for the Royal Alexandra.

* Mirvish Productions

In 2004, Cullen appeared as Max Bialystock in the Canadian production of The Producers for Mirvish Productions, earning him a Dora Mavor Award nomination.

Mirvish Productions owns Toronto's Royal Alexandra, Ed Mirvish ( formerly the Canon ), and Panasonic theatres.

* Mirvish Productions, Princess of Wales web page

In February 2010, Mirvish Productions announced that The Secret Garden will open in Toronto in March 2011.

Ownership fell to Live Nation, owners of Broadway Across Canada and Broadway Across America, a subsidiary of Clear Channel, which turned management of the facility over to Mirvish Productions, also giving Mirvish right of first negotiation should the theatre ever be put up for sale.

Honouring the original lease agreement between Mirvish Productions and Live Nation, Key Brand offered Mirvish the right of first negotiation and Mirvish successfully bid to purchase both theatres.

Mr. Dan's injunction application was dismissed by the court on August 19, 2008, and sale of the theatres to Mirvish Productions allowed to proceed.

* Owner: Mirvish Productions

In 1987, Mr. Mirvish founded the company Mirvish Productions for the purpose of producing and staging original works for the Royal Alexandra and, later, his new Princess of Wales Theatre ( opened in 1993 ).

Ed Mirvish rarely after ventured into production, but used the theatre-as it had always been used-as a road house, booking in touring shows and pre-Broadway tryouts.

In June 2006, Ed and Anne Mirvish marked their 65th wedding anniversary with a party at the Princess of Wales Theatre.

In July 2006, Mirvish celebrated his 92nd birthday with a lavish party at Honest Ed's.

On 11 July 2007, the Mirvish family released a statement to announce the death of Ed Mirvish after midnight at St. Michael ’ s Hospital, Toronto.

Mirvish was buried at Pardes Shalom Cemetery in Maple, Ontario.

Mirvish lost his father at the age of 15.

They ran this business until 1948, when Mirvish cashed in his wife's insurance policy to open a new business, a bargain basement known as " Honest Ed's ", stocked with all kinds of odd merchandise purchased at bankruptcy and fire sales, and displayed on orange crates.

When his application to tear down the Victorian structures in order to build a parking lot was rejected by the city Mirvish, at the urging of his wife and son, rented them out at low rates to local artists and the street soon became a community of artists studios, galleries, boutiques and niche shops known today as Mirvish Village.

The child of a white mother and a black father, Johnson's career started in the mid-1960s when as a young grade schooler, she and her brother, were tapped by legendary Toronto producer Ed Mirvish to appear in Porgy and Bess at the Royal Alexandra Theatre.

Mirvish said at the time that he knew nothing about theatre-had never even been inside a theatre-but knew a bargain when he saw one.

As a condition of the sale, Ed Mirvish pledged to continue operating the Royal Alex as a legitimate theatre for at least five years.

Ed Mirvish had been a well known local businessman whose landmark Honest Ed's discount store, is located nearby at the southwest corner of Bloor Street and Bathurst Street.

The previous location at Brunswick and Bloor owned by Ed Mirvish was sold in August 2005 and The Poor Alex Theatre relocated to 772A Dundas St. W. one block west of Bathurst St.

* Pantages Theatre ( Toronto ), Ontario, now Ed Mirvish Theatre ( formerly Canon Theatre )

It was initially known as the Pantages Theatre, then became the Imperial Theatre and later the Canon Theatre, before it was renamed in honour of Ed Mirvish, a popular businessman and theatre impresario.

In March 2008 Mirvish announced the acquisition of the Panasonic and Canon Theatres in Toronto from Key Brand Entertainment, which had itself purchased the theatres from Live Nation in February 2008.

Mirvish had been operating the Canon Theatre under a 15-year lease signed in 2001 with Live Nation which gave him control over all bookings and management of the Canon.

Surrounding the square are other major landmarks, including the Toronto Eaton Centre, 10 Dundas Street East, 33 Dundas Street East, Ryerson University, Ed Mirvish Theatre, Atrium on Bay and Canada's largest media tower.

In 1993, David Mirvish added a third theatre to the empire, building the Princess of Wales Theatre a block to the west of the Royal Alexandra.

* Ed Mirvish Theatre

For the Princess of Wales Theatre, David Mirvish commissioned a series of murals by American abstract – expressionist painter and sculptor Frank Stella.

Among Lamb's Canadian theaters that have been preserved is the Pantages Theatre in Toronto ( 1920 ) ( now the Ed Mirvish Theatre ).

The building was designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb, who also built the Ed Mirvish Theatre.

Ed Mirvish Theatre is a historic film and play theatre in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Ed Mirvish Theatre began as the Pantages Theatre in 1920 as a combination vaudeville and motion picture house.

As part of the financing arrangements for the purchase of Live Nation's assets, Key Brand agreed to sell both Ed Mirvish Theatre and the nearby Panasonic Theatre, in Toronto.

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* Imperial Theatre, Toronto, former cinema now the Ed Mirvish Theatre