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Dec 20, 2022 Archivists One and All As we’re sure you’ve noticed, Roadside Theater’s website has undergone quite the metamorphosis. One of the most exciting parts of this transformation is the addition of two unique features—the Living Archive and Your Stack.  The Living Archive provides a space for us to compile, organize, preserve, and display materials from past projects that have defined who we are as entertainers and storytellers. This feature allows us to remain in touch with our past so we...

Audience attending Roadside's Appalachian Tent Tour

Beegie Adair 1937-2022

Roadside mourns the passing on January 23 of their long-time collaborator Beegie Adair.

Audience attending Roadside's Appalachian Tent Tour
Jan 23, 2023 Looking Back, Looking Ahead We must admit, 2022 was not the year we anticipated. The floods in Eastern Kentucky devastated our region, taking lives, toppling homes, and forever changing our relationship to land, water, and the community around us.  Our losses were small in the larger scheme of things, but still losses nonetheless. We no longer had a workplace. Our relationship to our work felt vastly different. The abrupt change pushed us into new territory. How were we expected to make theater in a time like this?...

Audience attending Roadside's Appalachian Tent Tour
Aug 23, 2023 The Devising Lab Experiment Begins! Sometimes an idea makes so much sense you never even consider it, or as we say here in the mountains, “If it was a snake, it would have bit you!” That’s how we feel about our summer partnership with the Appalachian Media Institute (AMI). We spent three weeks in an immersive workshop environment with their interns, practicing a variety of performance mediums in support of our shared  goal—creating and staging a new piece of original theater. We’re great...
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