This play’s true stories come from prisoners, corrections officers, and their respective families; and from people living in communities where prisons are sited.
Liberian refugee artists, Fatu Gayflor, Tokay Tomah, and Zaye Tete, and the Philadelphia Folklore Project create “Chorus for Change,” a performance-based project addressing women’s issues.
Artists from two rural communities, Choteau, Montana and Whitesburg, Kentucky, conduct a cultural exchange and playwriting project and two plays are written and performed for each others' audiences.
Are you wondering how Santa gets his sleigh all the way around the world in one night while you can’t find your car in the mall parking lot? It’s time to relax and enjoy Roadside’s Christmas in Appalachia!
From 1990 to 1993, at Cornell University, Roadside developed and taught a course in popular theater and playwriting and hosted, with Cornell, a national symposium on popular theater.
Community partners add the voices of Cherokee tradition keepers and descendants of African slaves to an annual Appalachian pre-Revolutionary War historical reenactment and trade fair.
Local folk work together through low cost media to define and address the barriers that prevent their communities from enjoying access to health care, a safe environment, new technology, and economic development.
A 30-year cultural exchange, performance, playwriting, and national touring collaboration between Junebug Productions of New Orlean, Theresa Holden of Austin, and Roadside Theater
Articles about Roadside Theater, Grassroots Theater, National Conversations about the Arts, the Appalachian Region, Art and Community Organizing, and the Roadside Newsletter Archive. Articles are in alphabetical order according to title.
A three-day performance and cultural festival in Fresno, California celebrating the traditions of indigenous and immigrant communities of the Central Valley
Roadside Theater, Junebug Productions, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and El Teatro de la Esperanza work with ASU and community groups to create original performing art focusing on untold stories.
What happens when William and Mary College students and local residents explore Williamsburg's 1950's Civil Rights era history through the stories of local residents?
A 29-year cultural exchange with traditional Native American artists in Zuni, New Mexico and the founding of Idiwanan An Chawe the first Zuni language theater company.
Local folk work together through low cost media to define and address the barriers that prevent their communities from enjoying access to health care, a safe environment, new technology, and economic development.
This play’s true stories come from prisoners, corrections officers, and their respective families; and from people living in communities where prisons are sited.
Voices from the Battlefront is a play and workshop that brings different, even conflicting, points of view together to address a common community problem, domestic violence.
Artists from two rural communities, Choteau, Montana and Whitesburg, Kentucky, conduct a cultural exchange and playwriting project and two plays are written and performed for each others' audiences.
Are you wondering how Santa gets his sleigh all the way around the world in one night while you can’t find your car in the mall parking lot? It’s time to relax and enjoy Roadside’s Christmas in Appalachia!
A 30-year cultural exchange, performance, playwriting, and national touring collaboration between Junebug Productions of New Orlean, Theresa Holden of Austin, and Roadside Theater
Roadside Theater makes: Original Appalachian Plays; Inter-Cultural Collaborative Plays; and Plays that Incorporate Professional, Folk, and Amateur Artists
Promise of a Love Song, a collaboration with Junebug Productions and Pregones Theater -- New Orleans, The Bronx, and the Cumberland Plateau meet on the subject of love.
Red Fox/Second Hangin' is the true story of M.B. "Doc" Taylor, "the Red Fox" -- a red-headed, red-bearded, popular preacher, doctor, mystic, and U.S. marshall -- and the coming of the first coal boom to Central Appalachia in the 1890's.
South of the Mountain traces the lives of two generations of an Appalachian family living on a small farm as agrarian life gives way to coal mining and industrialization.
Voices from the Battlefront is a play and workshop that brings different, even conflicting, points of view together to address a common community problem, domestic violence.
What happens when William and Mary College students and local residents explore Williamsburg's 1950's Civil Rights era history through the stories of local residents?
A 29-year cultural exchange with traditional Native American artists in Zuni, New Mexico and the founding of Idiwanan An Chawe the first Zuni language theater company.
From 1990 to 1993, at Cornell University, Roadside developed and taught a course in popular theater and playwriting and hosted, with Cornell, a national symposium on popular theater.
This report attempts to capture a phenomenon in formation: the integration of community cultural development studies into higher education in the United States.
New York University Tisch School of the Arts undergraduate students immerse themselves in the creation of grassroots film, theater, audio, and photography.
Articles about Roadside Theater, Grassroots Theater, National Conversations about the Arts, the Appalachian Region, Art and Community Organizing, and the Roadside Newsletter Archive. Articles are in alphabetical order according to title.
Roadside Theater, Junebug Productions, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and El Teatro de la Esperanza work with ASU and community groups to create original performing art focusing on untold stories.
What happens when William and Mary College students and local residents explore Williamsburg's 1950's Civil Rights era history through the stories of local residents?
Articles about Roadside Theater, Grassroots Theater, National Conversations about the Arts, the Appalachian Region, Art and Community Organizing, and the Roadside Newsletter Archive. Articles are in alphabetical order according to title.
Voices from the Cultural Battlefront: Organizing for Equity is an ongoing twenty-two year international conversation about the role of art and culture in the struggle for human rights.
For some time now, Roadside Theater has been concerned about the lack of a rational debate about the role of art in a democracy. Here are three critical perspectives on the same movie.
