{"id":768867,"date":"2026-06-29T13:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768867\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:10:11","slug":"spirited-away-to-make-north-american-stage-premiere-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768867\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Spirited Away&#8217; to make North American stage premi\u00e8re in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The stage adaptation of \u201cSpirited Away\u201d will have its North American premi\u00e8re in Toronto. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mirvish says the international touring production will play a 15-week engagement at the Princess of Wales Theatre from May 6 to Aug. 15, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The theatre company says the show comes to Toronto \u201cdirect from Japan\u201d and will be performed in Japanese with English subtitles by a company of 50 actors, puppeteers and musicians. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The show, which was created by Japanese entertainment company TOHO, brings to the stage a version of Hayao Miyazaki\u2019s Oscar-winning animated film about a girl drawn into a magical world ruled by spirits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The production was co-adapted for the stage by John Caird, who is also the show\u2019s director, and his wife Maoko Imai. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Caird, who was born in Edmonton and spent most of his life in the U.K., is best known as the original co-adapter and co-director of the \u201cLes Mis\u00e9rables\u201d musical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 26, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The stage adaptation of \u201cSpirited Away\u201d will have its North American premi\u00e8re in Toronto. Mirvish says the international&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[76,49,48,75],"class_list":["post-768867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-arts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}