This Just In: THE HEART OF ROBIN HOOD Extends in Toronto; Postpones Broadway Run

Producers announced today THE HEART OF ROBIN HOOD, which opened last week in Toronto, will extend for four additional weeks of performances in Toronto. Tickets for the additional four weeks go on sale Monday January 26. At the same time, producers also announced that plans for the Broadway run have changed.

Producer David Mirvish said, "In light of the great reception we are getting from audiences and the media in Toronto, we have decided not to rush in to New York this season. The Nederlander Organization had kindly offered us an interim booking at the Marquis Theatre this summer and we now feel that The Heart of Robin Hood would be better served by a venue where we had the potential to play longer than our limited run. We are delighted to be able to add more weeks of performances for our audiences here in Toronto."

The Heart of Robin Hood was to begin performances in New York on March 11, 2015, opening before the Tony Award eligibility deadline on March 29 and then run through August 23, when the show would have to close for another booking in the theatre.

The Heart of Robin Hood began performances in Winnipeg at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre on November 12, 2014 and played to sold-out houses through December 6, 2014.

The Heart of Robin Hood began performances in Toronto at the Royal Alexandra Theatre on December 23, 2014, with its official opening night on January 14, 2015.

Every legendary hero has to start somewhere. In The Heart of Robin Hood, playwright David Farr presents a wildly imaginative, theatrically dazzling new spin on the familiar fable. Forget everything you ever knew about Robin Hood. In this reimagining, Robin and his unmerry gang of cutthroats steal from the rich, but it's never occurred to them to give anything back to anyone. But when wicked Prince John threatens all, bold Marion steps in to protect the poor and transform a thuggish Robin from hood to good.

First staged at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2011 and at American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) in Cambridge, MA., in 2013, the eye-popping, athletic and endlessly inventive production from acclaimed director Gísli Örn Gardarsson, has been cheered by critics and audiences. The Heart of Robin Hood explodes off the stage to take place in front, above and on all sides of the audience. The production features swashbuckling, acrobatics, comedy, drama, cross-dressing, trap doors, aerial work and original music played by on-stage musicians, the acclaimed Connecticut-based roots band, Parsonsfield.

Farr and Gardarsson previously collaborated on the acclaimed staging of Kafka's Metamorphosis, at BAM in 2010 and at the Royal Alexandra Theatre February 2014.

Set design is by Börkur Jónsson, costume design is by Emma Ryott and sound design is by Jonathan Deans. Casting is by Telsey + Company and Stephanie Gorin Casting. The show's creative consultant is Walter Bobbie.