Job Opening

Roadside Job Opening -- Web Community Coordinator

           This is an exciting fulltime opportunity to play a key role in an entrepreneurial and creative new Roadside venture. But wait, there's more . . .

Thousand Kites

Thousand Kites Play

This play’s true stories come from prisoners, corrections officers, and their respective families; and from people living in communities where prisons are sited.

Community Cultural Development

New Mexico Residency


A 2012 Community Cultural Development residency in Albuquerque, NM ends with a performance, "From School House to Jail House."  

Albuquerque

A growing collection of Roadside's playmaking and community cultural residency methodology

March 2013 Company

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.

Choteau, Montana

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.

Christmas in Appalachia

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!

Cornell University

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.

Michael Swimmer

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.

Thousand Kites

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.

Junebug/Jack

A 30-year cultural exchange, performance, playwriting, and national touring collaboration between Junebug Productions of New Orlean, Theresa Holden of Austin, and Roadside Theater  

New York County Supreme Courthouse

How can we address unspoken imbalances of power in our institutions? When and how do we unconsciously perpetuate power imbalances?

Ensemble Works

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.

Job Opening

           This is an exciting fulltime opportunity to play a key role in an entrepreneurial and creative new Roadside venture. But wait, there's more . . .

Story circle

Our tested storytelling method for empowering community members.

Tamejavi

A three-day performance and cultural festival in Fresno, California celebrating the traditions of indigenous and immigrant communities of the Central Valley

Untold Stories

 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.

Walk Together Children

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?

Corn Mountain/Pine Mountain

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.

Campaigns

New Mexico Residency


A 2012 Community Cultural Development residency in Albuquerque, NM ends with a performance, "From School House to Jail House."  

Thousand Kites

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.

Movement Meeting

Roadside's Artistic Director participated in two White House meetings to discuss arts and culture policy with the administration.

New York County Supreme Courthouse

How can we address unspoken imbalances of power in our institutions? When and how do we unconsciously perpetuate power imbalances?

Thousand Kites

This play’s true stories come from prisoners, corrections officers, and their respective families; and from people living in communities where prisons are sited.

Bringing different, even conflicting, points of view together to address domestic violence.

World Refugee Day

Millions of families have lost their homes to violence and war. One refugee family without shelter is too many.

New Play Creation

Betsy

Betsy is the story of a Bronx born and bred Puerto Rican jazz singer who stirs up the little known history of her Scots-Irish ancestry.

Albuquerque

A growing collection of Roadside's playmaking and community cultural residency methodology

Choteau, Montana

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.

Christmas in Appalachia

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!

Junebug/Jack

A 30-year cultural exchange, performance, playwriting, and national touring collaboration between Junebug Productions of New Orlean, Theresa Holden of Austin, and Roadside Theater  

Leaving Egypt

Leaving Egypt tells the story of an Appalachian family facing the loss of their ancestral homeplace circa 1969.

Mountain Tales & Music

Mountain Tales & Music, Roadside's first production, an energetic performance of traditional tales and songs from the Appalachian Mountains.

New Ground Revival, a musical play with 28 songs and featuring the Mullins Family Singers of Dickenson County, Virginia

On the Road

Roadside Theater makes: Original Appalachian Plays; Inter-Cultural Collaborative Plays; and Plays that Incorporate Professional, Folk, and Amateur Artists

Pretty Polly

Pretty Polly, Roadside's first musical play, created musical compositions and harmony singing that became hallmarks of the ensemble's performances.

Performance of "Promise of a Love Song"

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'

Red Fox/Second Hangin' is the true story of M.B. "Doc" Taylor, "the Red Fox" -- a red-headed, red-bearded, popular preacher...

South of the Mountain

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.

Story circle

Our tested storytelling method for empowering community members.

Thousand Kites

This play’s true stories come from prisoners, corrections officers, and their respective families; and from people living in communities where prisons are sited.

Bringing different, even conflicting, points of view together to address domestic violence.

Walk Together Children

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?

Corn Mountain/Pine Mountain

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.

Teaching in Colleges and Communities

Albuquerque

A growing collection of Roadside's playmaking and community cultural residency methodology

Cornell University

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.

Higher Education Curriculum

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.

Ensemble Works

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.

Untold Stories

 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.

Walk Together Children

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?

Culture Policy

Movement Meeting

Roadside's Artistic Director participated in two White House meetings to discuss arts and culture policy with the administration.

Ensemble Works

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

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.

Southern Beasts

Three critical perspectives on the most popular independent film of 2012.