REVIEWS // BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY
THE TORONTO STAR
“Fox’s production delivers a solid Toronto premiere for a stunning play, with strong performances”
THE GLOBE AND MAIL ★★★½
“The company doesn’t disappoint. The acting, ignited by director Kelli Fox for this production, is the kind that generates so much heat, you’ll swear the Coal Mine’s cozy space has shot up a good 10 degrees before the show is over.”
NOW MAGAZINE NNN
“(Allegra) Fulton navigates the play... with grace and a touch of magic”
PAULA CITRON.CA
ON STAGE BLOG
“...that same coarse naturalness from ‘Motherf***er... was there in spades, beautifully underscored by a compellingly charismatic seven-member ensemble cast under Kelli Fox’s intuitively tight direction.”
“Alexander Thomas’s gruff performance as Pops is a true tour de force of character development”
“The intimacy of the Coal Mine Theatre allows for an immediate and emotional connection from actor to audience.”
“Coal Mine has a winner here. It’s riveting, revealing, and reeling with emotional understatements. ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’ is going to sell out quickly so rush to get a ticket.”
BROADWAY WORLD
“Coal Mine isn't Toronto's biggest theatre or its newest or oldest. But it has, I think, a clearer artistic identity than any other joint in this city: a quest to constantly transform itself, to surprise audiences each time they enter with a new set, a new story. It is Toronto's brilliant shoebox”
“(Set designer, Anna Truech and props designer, Kayla Chaterji's) work tips BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY over the edge, from a play to an experience, a place, a time, an idea, a broken promise, a plan that unfolds all around you”
“Alexander Thomas as Walter Washington is a minor force of nature, an undetected hurricane that mumbles onto shore and tears trees from the ground”
“...an electrical storm that can't be contained and shoots off in every direction”
“very member of director Kelli Fox's robust cast is dynamic, exciting, small until they're big, there until they're not.”
MOONEY ON THEATRE
“...this production packs one hell of a punch.”
MY GAY TORONTO
THE SLOTKIN LETTER
LIFE WITH MORE COWBELL
“...intimate, entertaining, deeply poignant...”