Emanuel Fried News

Road Less Traveled Productions today announced a Call for Work for its 5th Annual Buffalo Young Writers (BYW) contest. The professionally run, non-profit theatre company encourages Western New York (WNY) area students (ages 15 through 23, currently enrolled in school) to write and submit a ten-minute play. In the 2014 contest, one grand-prize winner (selected by RLTP) will receive $200 cash, a one-year paid membership to the Dramatists Guild of America, and will see their play produced at the Road Less Traveled Theater. Four runners up also will receive readings of their submissions, as well as complementary tickets to RLTP shows.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) today announced it is accepting applications for the 2014 Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop (NPW). The professionally run, non-profit, theatre company encourages Western New York (WNY) writers to visit its website for information on participation in the annual program, which will launch its 2014 iteration in March.

Four noted Buffalo playwrights will each present the world premiere of a new ten-minute play during the 2013 Buffalo Infringement Festival. The four plays - each taking place inside and around a stationary automobile - will comprise an evening titled Car Plays 2013, opening tonight, July 25th and running through Saturday, August 3rd (Thursday/Friday/Saturday only).

Four noted Buffalo playwrights will each present the world premiere of a new ten-minute play during the 2013 Buffalo Infringement Festival. The four plays - each taking place inside and around a stationary automobile - will comprise an evening titled Car Plays 2013, opening Thursday, July 25th and running through Saturday, August 3rd (Thursday/Friday/Saturday only).

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) has announced a new host venue for its summer schedule of public development readings of plays from the 2013 Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop (NPW). Beginning today, July 8th, the NPW will present five plays readings at PAUSA Art House, the recently opened cafe and performance venue located at 19 Wadsworth Street (at Allen). Readings will continue through Monday, August 19th; there will be no NPW readings on Monday, July 22nd and Monday, July 27th.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) has announced a new host venue for its summer schedule of public development readings of plays from the 2013 Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop (NPW). Beginning Monday, July 8th, the NPW will present five plays readings at PAUSA Art House, the recently opened cafe and performance venue located at 19 Wadsworth Street (at Allen). Readings will continue through Monday, August 19th; there will be no NPW readings on Monday, July 22nd and Monday, July 27th.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) will present its Fourth Annual Buffalo Young Writers (BYW) Night on Wednesday, May 15th at 7:00 pm at The Road Less Traveled Theater, located at 639 Main Street, in Downtown Buffalo's Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre (MAFAC). The evening will feature winners of the 2013 BYW Contest, recognizing outstanding student playwrights in the Western New York (WNY) area.

Pursuant to Road Less Traveled Production's (RLTP's) mission to engage a new and youthful audience in the Western New York (WNY) theatergoing community and in connection with its ongoing Education Initiative, in January, RLTP announced the launch of The RLTP Summer Institute, a unique summer program for young people interested in exploring and developing abilities as theatre artists.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP), dedicated to the development and production of new plays by Western New York (WNY) playwrights, will bring yet another world premiere to fruition in March, when it debuts SEEDS, a new play by RLTP Ensemble Member Donna Hoke. The comedy/drama will open in Downtown Buffalo's Theatre District today, March 1st, 2013 and will star Kelly Jakiel, Diane Curley, Todd Benzin, Diane DiBernardo, and Pamela Rosa Mangus. RLTP Ensemble Member Kristin Tripp Kelley will direct.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP), dedicated to the development and production of new plays by Western New York (WNY) playwrights, will bring yet another world premiere to fruition in March, when it debuts SEEDS, a new play by RLTP Ensemble Member Donna Hoke. The comedy/drama will open in Downtown Buffalo's Theatre District on Friday, March 1st, 2013 and will star Kelly Jakiel, Diane Curley, Todd Benzin, Diane DiBernardo, and Pamela Rosa Mangus. RLTP Ensemble Member Kristin Tripp Kelley will direct. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage in the photos below!

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) today publicly announced its 2013-2014 Season, which will mark the local theatre company's tenth anniversary of operations. Founded in 2003 by Executive & Artistic Director Scott Behrend and Literary Director Jon Elston (and debuting its first production in January of that year), RLTP has spent the past decade pursuing a mission of developing and producing world-premiere plays by Western New York (WNY) playwrights, engaging a new and youthful WNY audience, and consistently presenting an accurate reflection of WNY's broad multi-cultural composition.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP), dedicated to the development and production of new plays by Western New York (WNY) playwrights, will bring yet another world premiere to fruition in March, when it debuts SEEDS, a new play by RLTP Ensemble Member Donna Hoke. The comedy/drama will open in Downtown Buffalo's Theatre District on Friday, March 1st, 2013 and will star Kelly Jakiel, Diane Curley, Todd Benzin, Diane DiBernardo, and Pamela Rosa Mangus. RLTP Ensemble Member Kristin Tripp Kelley will direct.

Pursuant to Road Less Traveled Production's (RLTP's) mission to engage a new and youthful audience in the Western New York (WNY) theatergoing community and in connection with its ongoing Education Initiative, RLTP today announced the launch of The RLTP Summer Institute, a unique summer program for young people interested in exploring and developing abilities as theatre artists.

BroadwayWorld brings you the Best of Buffalo in the year 2012. Check out the Top Theatre Stories from each month during in the year 2012. We look forward to another exciting year of theatre in 2013!

It's the end of the world as Buffalo knows it this November as Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) presents the world premiere of 2012: End Of The Road by Jon Elston.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) has announced that a new addition to Western New York's (WNY's) flourishing theatre community will find a regular home at the Road Less Traveled Theater beginning tonight, September 19th, when The Honesty Theater Presents Fairy Tales, an evening of short original plays by local playwright and Honesty Theater founder Heather Ackerman.

In connection with the opening of its 2012-2013 Season, Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) today expressed its gratitude to area corporate organizations offering support for the 2012-2013 Season. The RLTP 2012-2013 Season officially opens tonight, Friday, September 14, 2012, with From The Mississippi Delta, by Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland. Productions to follow during the September through May season include the world-premiere of Jon Elston's 2012: End of the Road, the Western New York (WNY) premiere of Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation, the world-premiere and Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop Selection of Donna Hoke's Seeds, and the WNY premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Clean House.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) today announced that a new addition to Western New York's (WNY's) flourishing theatre community will find a regular home at the Road Less Traveled Theater beginning Wednesday, September 19th, when The Honesty Theater Presents Fairy Tales, an evening of short original plays by local playwright and Honesty Theater founder Heather Ackerman.

Road Less Traveled Productions' (RLTP's) Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop (NPW) today announced a special benefit reading of Eurydice, a contemporary take on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus & Eurydice by acclaimed playwright Sarah Ruhl (In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play). The reading will be presented at 8:00 PM tonight, August 18th at the Road Less Traveled Theater (RLTT) in the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre, in Downtown Buffalo. The reading will benefit the NPW, an integral component of RLTP's mission to develop and produce plays by Western New York (WNY) writers. RLTP will also be producing Ruhl's Clean House in the Spring of 2013.