An American Romance
July 23, 2020 4:46 pm1841. Brook Farm, one of America’s first utopian communities. There, Nathanial Hawthorne and his friends attempted to establish a rational society but were led astray by their own...
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Idle Wheels
July 23, 2020 4:10 pmIdle minds are the devil’s workshop in this story of a Texas trailer park transplant stuck in the frozen Alaskan tundra.
Balm in Gilead
July 5, 2020 10:27 pmThe setting is an all-night coffee shop on New York’s upper Broadway, where the riff-raff, the bums, the petty thieves, the lost, the desperate of the big city...
Pirates
July 12, 2020 3:00 pmHelen, a soon-to-be single parent and history professor at a small East Coast college, grapples with her conservative colleagues while researching a book-length project on infamous pirate Anne...
My Last Confession
July 12, 2020 3:23 pmSonia
Akela
July 12, 2020 3:51 pmA pair of very old, close friends find their lives changed forever after a seemingly innocent weekend camping trip turns tragic in an instant.
Merlin
July 12, 2020 4:03 pmWhy can’t the humans just get their act together? Must history repeat itself again and again? And can the human race exist in a completely recycled world? To...
Roadside Attractions
July 12, 2020 4:15 pmSonia
Petty Treasons
July 12, 2020 3:14 pmSonia
The Chisholm Trail Went Through Here
July 12, 2020 3:07 pmThe Rucker family–in Brady Thomas’ memory play, “The Chisholm Trail Went Through Here,” about life just after World War II in the dusty flatlands of Texas–looks very much...
Aesop’s Fables
July 12, 2020 2:58 pmA children’s theatre project presenting 30 Hazeltine Elementary School students’ adaptations of Aesop’s Fables.
Freak of Nature
July 11, 2020 6:30 pmA tortured male-model journies to find self-worth divorced from his looks.
The Walkers
July 11, 2020 6:21 pmLife in Suburban “Anytown, USA” takes its toll on this not so typical American family, a family as different as day and night. Traditional family values take a...
Vig
July 11, 2020 5:40 pmIn the backroom of a small Boston bar, Irish and Italian, black and white, men and women, meet to drink and gamble. The local car plant has been...
Mooncalf
July 11, 2020 5:26 pmTimmy works in a tanning factory. He is a mooncalf. Timmy transforms his bleak existence through starling and unnatural fantasy. But when two amoral drifters enter Timmy’s life,...
Why Things Burn
July 11, 2020 5:18 pmIt’s the fall of 1952. A second-rate circus disbands on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Inside a trailer, the strong man makes love to the trick pony rider....
The Suicide
July 11, 2020 4:56 pmUnemployment is skyrocketing. Corrupt politicians are eroding rights of free speech. Soon, even our bodies will belong to the state. Welcome to Russia, circa 1930, as the Road...
I-land
July 11, 2020 4:40 pmIt’s November 8, 1988 and the reign of King Ronnie and Queen Nancy is coming to an end. The scepter of power is soon to be transferred to...
In the Name of the People
July 11, 2020 4:21 pmN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE is a two-act drama, set in the heart of America in one of the remaining death penalty states. It is a play...
Summer Playwrights Festival 13
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Summer Playwrights Festival 12
May 16, 2021 12:49 am
Summer Playwrights Festival 12 Copy
June 8, 2022 1:07 am
Under Construction: The Full Lengths
August 30, 2021 12:48 amALL READINGS ARE SUGGESTED DONATION.
Under Construction 2: LIVE Play Readings
October 10, 2021 7:53 pmALL READINGS ARE SUGGESTED DONATION.
Summer Playwrights Festival 11
June 29, 2020 11:42 pmUnder Construction Playwrights Group (Second Option)
September 3, 2020 12:17 amUnder Construction: The Zoom Series from Road Theatre on Vimeo.
Under Construction Playwrights Group
September 14, 2020 11:52 pmCOMING SOON! UNDER CONSTRUCTION: THE FULL LENGTH VIRTUAL PLAYS! Check back soon for more information.
Seinfeld, The Road and Me: Lessons from a Pandemic
May 14, 2020 1:16 amBy Judith Moreland Road Artistic Board Member There’s an episode of the TV series Seinfeld where Jerry realizes that he’s the personification of “Even Steven.” Every time he loses something he almost...
Are the Arts Important?
May 13, 2020 6:39 pmBy Carlyle King Road Artistic Board Member Dear Road Family and Friends of the Arts, I am sure that I speak for the majority of us but I can’t wait...
The Road to Good Health: Creating Memories
May 13, 2020 6:23 pmBy Tracey Silver Road Artistic Board Member Like many of you, so many fears came upon me as this pandemic attacked our world. But those fears somehow turned...
How to Help Small Theater in the Time of COVID
April 28, 2020 6:39 pmHELP US NAVIGATE THE ROAD AHEAD!
Update II: To Scintilla Ticketholders
March 21, 2020 5:01 pmAs we all know, local and state policies are fluid and evolving swiftly concerning the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Art organizations across the state must now make difficult choices...
Important Information for Our Road Family and Friends
March 13, 2020 12:42 amDear Patrons of The Road Theatre Company, As concerns and advisories of the Coronavirus/COVID-19 continue, we want to inform you that your health, safety and peace of mind...
Bisexual Sadness
July 30, 2023 4:19 pmBISEXUAL SADNESS is about what it sounds like. Faye is getting married to a man, and though she really truly loves him, she wishes he was a woman....
Scintilla
February 19, 2020 10:44 pmMichael and Nora travel to visit his mother Marianne, a reclusive artist who lives at the edge of the woods in California’s Wine Country. As a raging wildfire...
Bright Half Life
March 30, 2022 12:04 pm“A moving love story that spans decades in an instant—from marriage, children, skydiving, and the infinite moments that make a life together.” The much-anticipated Los Angeles premiere by...
According to the Chorus
August 28, 2022 4:23 pmIn the basement quick change room of a Broadway theatre in the mid 1980s, life is full of angst as the long-running production may close at any time...
Beloved
April 26, 2022 9:15 pmIn this world premiere, Dorothy and Stephen are married co-owners of a once thriving real estate company. As their marriage and business falter, they learn that their teenage son...
The Play You Want
December 29, 2021 12:06 amTHE PLAY YOU WANT HAS ADDED AN EXTENSION FROM 6/2 – 6/19! Fed-up by the theatre world’s desires to box him in, Mexican playwright Bernardo Cubría sarcastically pitches...
Nowhere on the Border
September 19, 2019 11:55 amOVATION RECOMMENDED! A border watch volunteer confronts a Mexican man who claims to be looking for his missing daughter. Set in a hostile wasteland between nations, Nowhere on...