The Coal Mine Theatre
Established
2015
Artistic Director: Ted Dykstra
General Manager: Gerry Egan
Current staff listing: https://www.coalminetheatre.com/our-team
The Coal Mine Theatre is Toronto’s premiere Off-Off-Broadview theatre! Coal Mine brings Canada’s most influential theatre artists back to where many of us started out – in an intimate but transformable black-box space. Get close to the action at Coal Mine Theatre; there’s no professional theatre experience like it in Toronto.
Since its founding in 2015 by Diana Bentley and Ted Dykstra, The Coal Mine Theatre has become one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed theatres in Toronto, independent or otherwise. For eight seasons, in its intimate storefront space on the Danforth, the Coal Mine has presented challenging, stimulating, and award-winning scripts from Canada and around the world. Its productions routinely feature a thrilling combination of well-known and up-and-coming theatre artists, whose outstanding work regularly results in sold-out shows and extended runs.
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Website
http://www.coalminetheatre.com
Venues
The Coal Mine (798 Danforth Avenue)
The Coal Mine Theatre
The Coal Mine (1454 Danforth Ave)
Produced by The Coal Mine Theatre
| Eureka Day | February 1st, 2026 – March 1st, 2026 |
| Waiting for Godot | September 14th, 2025 |
| Job | April 20th, 2025 – May 18th, 2025 |
| People, Places and Things | February 9th, 2025 – March 2nd, 2025 |
| Infinite Life | September 6th, 2024 – September 29th, 2024 |
| Prophecy Fog | November 12th, 2023 – December 10th, 2023 |
| Appropriate | September 24th, 2023 – October 26th, 2023 |
| The Effect | July 9th, 2023 – July 30th, 2023 |
| Yerma | February 5th, 2023 – March 5th, 2023 |
| Detroit | July 3rd, 2022 – August 7th, 2022 |
| The Antipodes | April 3rd, 2022 – May 15th, 2022 |
| Marjorie Prime | January 26th, 2020 – February 23rd, 2020 |
| Between Riverside and Crazy | November 24th, 2019 – December 22nd, 2019 |
| Knives in Hens | September 22nd, 2019 – October 13th, 2019 |
| Hand to God | April 21st, 2019 – May 12th, 2019 |
| The Wonder Pageant | December 2nd, 2018 – December 23rd, 2018 |
| The Nether | September 7th, 2018 – November 4th, 2018 |
| The Aliens | September 17th, 2017 – October 8th, 2017 |
| Orphans | April 9th, 2017 – September 30th, 2017 |
| Superior Donuts | February 8th, 2017 – February 26th, 2017 |
| Breathing Corpses | October 25th, 2016 – November 13th, 2016 |
| Instructions (To Any Future Socialist Government Wish to Abolish Christmas) | May 29th, 2016 – June 19th, 2016 |
| Killer Joe | April 3rd, 2016 – April 24th, 2016 |
| Creditors | April 28th, 2015 – May 17th, 2015 |
| Bull | March 17th, 2015 – April 5th, 2015 |
Presented by The Coal Mine Theatre
| The Winter’s Tale | January 28th, 2016 – February 20th, 2016 |
| The Motherfucker with the Hat | November 9th, 2014 – November 30th, 2014 |
Current Staff
| Ted Dykstra | Chief Engineer (2014-Present) |
| Gerry Egan | General Manager |
