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Highlights
Roadside works with residents of multiple ages and points of view to create and perform a new play, The Future of Letcher County. Subsequent readings of the play, followed by...
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New Play Creation
Roadside Theater makes: Original Appalachian Plays; Inter-Cultural Collaborative Plays; and Plays that Incorporate Professional, Folk, and Amateur Artists
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Community Cultural Development
Since its founding in 1975, Roadside Theater has maintained a local program. The company’s original Appalachian plays and community cultural development methodology were, and...
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Collaborate With Us
In order to pass on its learning to a new generation, Roadside is especially interested in mutually-designed collaborations that will help document and make accessible the theory...
Coming Soon
We're proud to announce Roadside Theater's first-ever new leadership team
Our new leadership will further the work initiated nearly fifty years ago: the creation of community-driven and community-owned theater that bucks the trend of theater as an elite bubble and restores it to its rightful place as an inclusive space where the plurality and beauty of peoples are made manifest.
New Play Creation
BETSY! The Appalachian--Puerto Rican Musical
BETSY! tells the story of a Bronx jazz singer forced to confront her twin Spanish Caribbean and...
Community Cultural Development
Performing Our Future
Performing Our Future is a multiracial coalition of rural and urban communities working through...
Teaching in Colleges and Communities
Untold Stories, Arizona State University
Roadside Theater, Junebug Productions, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and El Teatro de la...
Advocacy
Culture Drives Development
Appalshop and the Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project at Lafayette College form a...