John O'Neal, 78, Champion of Theater in the Deep South, Dies

John O'Neal, who co-founded the Free Southern Theater as a part of SNCC during the Civil Rights Movement, died on February 14, 2019 at his home in New Orleans. Mr. O'Neal was a...
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...
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,...
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-...

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A Theater of Affirmation

Mar 14, 2018 By Donna Porterfield

Here's what happened when, in September 2017, American Theatre magazine asked Roadside's artistic director for an interview for a forthcoming article about how our current polarized politics “in the Age of Trump” shine a spotlight on the social and cultural work of theatremakers.