A Brief Introduction to the Organizing Principles of Appalshop/Roadside Theater

Remarks from the opening plenary of the Appalshop/Imagining America National Institute – July 14-18, 2016.Facilitator: To start this next session, we want to quickly get on the...
Summer Update: Performing Our Future Events Put Letcher County Talent in the National Spotlight

Summer in Letcher County, KY, 2016: A framework we’re calling Performing Our Future (POF) is our direct response to central Appalachia’s watershed moment of transition to a post-...
Review: To Change the Face and Heart of America: Selected Writings on the Arts and Communities, 1949-1992

Published in: GIA Reader, Vol 27, No 2 (Summer 2016)Robert E. Gard, 2016, 128 pages. Review by Dudley Cocke.Robert E. Gard, with additional contributions by Maryo Gard Ewell,...
BETSY! The Appalachian--Puerto Rican Musical

BETSY! tells the story of a Bronx jazz singer forced to confront her twin Spanish Caribbean and Scotch-Irish roots. Her dilemma stirs up the ghosts of six generations of American...

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Roadside Leads Appalachian-Native Cultural Exchange

May 10, 2017 By Amy Brooks

Roadside Theater is leading a national Appalachian-Native American exchange exploring the long-standing role of art in the Appalachian and Native American cultures.