'suspended performance' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use 'suspended performance' in a sentence when describing a temporary pause or halt in a planned action or event. Example: Due to the heavy rain, the outdoor concert had a suspended performance until the storm passed.
It's no worse than the German opera house that temporarily suspended performances of Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" because it included a scene featuring Muhammad's severed head.
The increase in prices after the opening of the new theatre in 1809 led to riots that practically suspended performances for three months.
First, David Peart and then Edward Fox took over as Winston Churchill from the indisposed Robert Hardy in Peter Morgan's The Audience, and then an injury to the actor Daniel Mays suspended performances of Nick Payne's The Same Deep Water As Me at the Donmar Warehouse until the theatre – unable to afford full-time understudies – had rehearsed another actor in the role.
If the appropriate Secretary does not take such action as may be necessary to increase the amount of funds awarded under this Contract, the Contractor may suspend performance of the Contract until such time as additional funds are awarded.
The Army's parachute demonstration team, the Golden Knights, is also suspending performances.
She, in turn, was pushing to suspend performances in midwinter to make her own changes.
It was to be inaugurated Tuesday, but each day this week the strikers met and voted to suspend performances.
The theatre's management released a statement saying they had decided to suspend performances until Thursday this week.
More recently, Mr. Volpe introduced the opera's first midseason break, which is to start with the 2004-05 schedule and will allow the Met to suspend performances during the winter months and extend them into the more profitable spring.
