Off-Broadway production ‘Coal Country’ heading to West Virginia in May

BECKLEY, W.Va. (WDBJ) – A significant off-Broadway manufacturing concerning the Higher Huge Department Mine Catastrophe is coming to West Virginia subsequent month.

‘Coal Nation’ is predicated on interviews with survivors and relations following the mine catastrophe in April 2010.

The present simply completed a profitable run in New York Metropolis, and Theatre West Virginia is bringing the whole forged and crew to Beckley for a free efficiency on Might ninth.

The manufacturing consists of veterans of the New York stage and music carried out by Grammy successful singer-songwriter Steve Earle.

“There’s a a lot bigger story and we imagine that it’s extremely vital the whole nation find out about and keep in mind this story,” stated Playwright and Director Jessica Clean.

“Folks from West Virginia have come to New York to see the present,” Earle instructed reporters throughout a teleconference Monday morning. “Quite a lot of the individuals which might be portrayed within the present got here to New York and noticed it there. However there’s lots of people that haven’t been in a position to make that journey.”

Theatre West Virginia will host the present on the Woodrow Wilson Excessive College Auditorium in Beckley.

The theater seats 1100, and 400 seats shall be reserved for survivors, sufferer’s relations and former workers of the Higher Huge Department Mine.

Copyright 2022 WDBJ. All rights reserved.