COAL MINE THEATRE

by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 28, 2024

The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts revealed the 228 nominations for the 44th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards. See the full list! ...

by Ilana Lucas - May 19, 2024

Director Moya O’Connell’s take on Henrik Ibsen’s play, in a new version by Liisa Repo-Martel, emphasizes the power of triangles, relationship groupings that seem stable but which are easily unbalanced by such an act of bisection. With a dynamite cast, an accessible adaptation, and the claustrophobic...

by Stephi Wild - April 03, 2024

Following the company’s first World Premiere production of DION: A ROCK OPERA last month, COAL MINE THEATRE will conclude the 23.24 season with another first – the staging of a European classic....

by A.A. Cristi - March 21, 2024

COAL MINE THEATRE has announced the departure of co-founder Diana Bentley. Bentley will step down as Co-Artistic Director and Artistic Producer at the end of the current season....

by Ilana Lucas - February 11, 2024

The tight, 70-minute DION is a visually compelling show which puts you right in the middle of the dangerous merriment, with terrific performances and some banger musical numbers. It only stumbles when, like one of its characters, it loses its head, trading its promising fluidity and timelessness to ...

by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 04, 2024

Shakespeare BASH'd presents a contemporary take on the rarely-produced play, The Two Noble Kinsmen. Directed by James Wallis, the production features an all-star cast and explores themes of love, gender, and identity. ...

by Stephi Wild - January 04, 2024

The COAL MINE THEATRE will produce their first ever World Premiere, a fully sung through rock opera based on Euripides’ The Bacchae, DION: A ROCK OPERA. The production is co-created by COAL MINE co-founder Ted Dykstra and Prince Edward Island poet and novelist, Steven Mayoff.  ...

by Joshua Wright - December 12, 2023

BWW Q&A: Taurian Teelucksingh of A Whole New World - The Musical Magic of Alan Menken at Brampton On Stage...

by Ilana Lucas - December 01, 2023

Jani Lauzon’s autobiographical one-act PROPHECY FOG at Coal Mine Theatre encourages its guests to be receptive vessels, to find comfort in sharing an experience around a circle, engaging in the journey together, and sitting amongst the star stuff of which we’re made....

by Ilana Lucas - October 22, 2023

If you call to book a ticket to Coal Mine’s brilliant production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ APPROPRIATE, you might stumble over the pronunciation. Is it appropriate, the proper actions to take in a particular circumstance? Or is it appropriate, to steal? The answer, shown through a complicated famil...