Road Less Traveled Productions Announces Its 2018/19 Season

Road Less Traveled Productions is excited to announce its 2018/19 Season at its brand-new permanent home at 456 Main Street in Downtown Buffalo! Featuring four full regular season theatrical productions, RLTP's 15th anniversary season will include:

SPEED THE PLOW
By David Mamet
October 26 - November 18, 2018

Bobby Gould is the newly minted Head of Production at a major Hollywood studio and needs a surefire success right out of the gate if he wants to keep his job. Two proposals land quickly in his lap. The first is a low-brow and racially insensitive action flick backed up by high-powered movie star wattage... in other words, it can't miss. The second is an intellectually challenging, philosophically progressive, deeply important literary adaptation... obviously, a guaranteed box office bomb. Will Bobby's alluring new secretary manage to convince him to do what might be the right thing, or will his longtime frenemy Charlie Fox return Bobby to the primrose path? Mamet's rapid-fire comedy/drama pits Money vs. Art, Comfort vs. Courage, and Lady vs. Tiger.

THE ILLUSION
A Western New York Premiere
Freely Adapted by Tony Kushner
January 18 - February 10, 2019
>From Pierre Corneille's, L'Illusion Comique

>From the author of Angels in America. A beautiful story about love in all its wonderful and terrible forms: a penitent father seeks out a powerful, dark, magician to help him track down the son he nearly killed fifteen years ago. In a dark cave, Alcandre the Magician will conjure three tales from the lost son's life for his father to witness. Tales of love, danger, and betrayal... told by shadows and illusions. In the process Alcandre shares a new understanding of the grandest illusion of all - love.

BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY
A Western New York Premiere
By Stephen Adly Guirgis
March 8 - 31, 2019

Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Author of The Motherf**cker with the Hat.

Walter "Pops" Washington, a black NYPD officer, is shot while off-duty by a white cop. Eight years later, he's wheelchair bound, trapped in legal turnaround while trying to sue the city... and somehow, he's become a surrogate father to a handful of hard-luck kids who call his rent-controlled Riverside Drive apartment home. Now the city is playing hardball, and Pops and his kids will be evicted unless he settles his suit. With fast paced, hard-hitting humor and grit, Guirgis leads us into the rich & complex world of Pops as he must choose between justice and survival.

THE UNDENIABLE SOUND OF RIGHT NOW
A Western New York Premiere
By Laura Eason
April 26 - May 19, 2019

Since 1967, Hank's bar has been home to the biggest up-and-coming bands from The Clash to Nirvana in one of the roughest neighborhoods in Chicago. It's 1992, and gentrification has hit Hank with higher-rents and new fads in fashion and music. If Hank's to save his bar, he may have to let his daughter turn it in to a Rave nightclub where music is spun by DJ's instead of being played by musicians. Hank would rather die, but is he willing to let his life's work die, too?

SUBSCRIPTION ON-SALE NOW!

During the 2018/19 season, Buffalo area theatergoers have a couple of options for catching part or all of Road Less Traveled Productions' intriguing lineup of contemporary drama. Flexible subscription plans include:

• 4-Play Regular Subscription - $135

• 3-Play Flex Subscription - $105 (Choose 3 plays)

All four shows will be produced at the Road Less Traveled Theater at 500 Pearl Street. Individual tickets are $38 general admission and $22 for students. Student tickets for Thursday performances are only $5 (with college ID). Groups of 10 or more may also apply for group discounts. You may order tickets online (www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org), by calling (716) 629-3069 or by visiting the RLTT box office during the 30 minutes prior to any performance.

UPCOMING RLTP EVENTS AT SHEA'S 710 THEATRE

THE THREE MUSKETEERS
By Linda Alper
Produced by All For One Theatre Productions LLC
November 1 - 18, 2018

Strength. Courage. Unity. Through these tenets, one can always defend their beliefs. Set in 1625, this tale of swashbuckling adventure explores the themes of heroism, secrets and-the greatest of all-love. Come on a journey with our Musketeers and new producer collaboration in the Fall of 2018 - truly an "all for one and one for all" experience as these five great theatres collaborate to produce an unforgettable classic.

MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY
By Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon
Produced by RLTP
December 6 - 22, 2018

Have you ever wondered what happened to the beloved characters in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice? Come spend Christmas at Pemberley with the newlywed Darcys as we learn how the bookish middle sister Mary is faring, and how an unexpected guest may turn the tide on her seemingly spinster ways.

ALMOST, MAINE
By John Cariani
Produced by RLTP (Limited Engagement!)
February 14 - 17, 2019

One of the most-produced plays in the United States, Almost, Maine is a whimsical series of nine vignettes about love in a snow-covered town. Four actors play the 20 residents of the fictional town of Almost, Maine, an off-the-ramp location that's as enchanting as its charm-filled characters. Some vignettes are silly, others are somber, but all transport audiences to a dreamlike place beneath the northern lights where love drifts along like snowflakes in the wintry air.

About Road Less Traveled Productions
Road Less Traveled Productions challenges audiences through provocative storytelling and passionate artistry. The RLTP Ensemble constructs bold and imaginative ways to explore, discuss, and understand timely and timeless issues that connect diverse communities, globally and locally, to the commonality of human experience. Our mission is to develop the canon of contemporary voices through production of new and notable works by regional and national playwrights, creating unforgettable live theatre experiences that bring value to our lives. RLTP, a member of the National New Play Network, Theatre Communications Group, Theatre Alliance of Buffalo and Theatre District will open its new home for the 2018/19 season at 456 Main Street in Downtown Buffalo, NY. For more information about RLTP and to purchase tickets, please visit www.RoadLessTraveledProductions.org or call (716) 629-3069. RLTP's work is made possible through public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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