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About the Boston Theater Marathon
The Boston Theater Marathon's Artistic Director Kate Snodgrass announces the return of the Elliot Norton Award-winning Boston Theater Marathon on Sunday, May 11, 2008. 50 new plays by Boston-area playwrights, performed by 50 theatre companies in a 10 hour stretch.
The BTM is a program of Boston Playwrights' Theatre and is funded by a grant from the Humanities Foundation at Boston University. We would like to thank the Huntington Theatre Company once again for donating space for this annual charity event in their new Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts.
The Boston Theater Marathon is "astonishing," "exciting," "extraordinary," and, most of all, "fun." In its first seven years, the Boston Theater Marathon played to standing-room-only crowds for all 10 hours of 10-minute plays by Boston's best playwrights -- the famous, the great, the unknown, and the soon-to-be-successful. In 2004 the BTM was awarded "Boston's Best" by the Improper Bostonian for "Best Original Programming." (read more in The Buzz)
In addition to Boston’s best playwrights, you will see Boston’s best actors and directors in this celebration involving the entire Boston theatre community. All net proceeds from this charity event go a fund for actors & theatres in need called the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund. You can find out more about this fund on the StageSource website.
The Boston Theater Marathon is supported by a grant from The Humanities Foundation of Boston University, enabling all net proceeds to benefit The Theater Community Benevolent Fund.
Want to volunteer for the Marathon? We need people the day of the marathon, as well as the week or two before.
The Judging Process - A letter from Artistic Director Kate Snodgrass
Check out Baker's Plays to order a collection of these plays: BTM1, BTM2, BTM3, BTM4.