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CONTACT: Michael Duncan Smith, mdsmith@bu.edu, 339-222-6002.
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre presents
Boston Theater Marathon XIII
Plus the Warm-Up Laps
May 21 – 22, 2011
PRESS ATTENDENCE: Press are welcome to attend both event dates; however, as in past years, press tickets to the Marathon are not free due to the large number of volunteers and charitable goals of the event. The Warm-Up Laps are free and open to the public.
WHERE: Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street, Boston.
EMAIL: mdsmith@bu.edu for more information or to reserve a seat for any Warm-Up Lap reading.
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BOSTON, MA – Boston Playwrights’ Theatre presents the 13th annual Boston Theater Marathon and the third year of The Warm-Up Laps. The Boston Theater Marathon features 50 ten-minute plays, by 51 New England playwrights, produced by 50 New England theatres in 10 hours.
The Boston Theater Marathon has brought playwrights, directors and theatres together over the past 13 years in an effort to foster collaboration between artists and producers. Many playwrights have enjoyed full-length productions with collaborating theatres because of the relationship forged during the Boston Theater Marathon.
The Warm-Up Laps will feature The Correspondent by Huntington Playwriting Fellow Ken Urban, Uncle Jack by Michael Hammond, a modern re-envisioning of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya, and Deported by Elliot Norton Award-winner Joyce Van Dyke. The Warm-Up Laps are presented in collaboration with The Boston Center for the Arts and their resident theatres.
All net proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund which provides financial support to theatres and theatre artists in times of need.
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Plays and Playwrights of BTM XIII
Doll Hospital by Jeanne Beckwith
Pentagon Mashed Potatoes by Cliff Blake
Rox-N, Miss Thang by Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich
Sarah in Blunderland by Robert Brustein
Mirror Touch by Michael Burgan
Late, Lamented by Lynne Cullen
The Curator by Jennifer Diamond
Boy-Man by Diane Di Ianni
The Fudgicle Thief by Bill Doncaster
Procession by William Donnelly
Wasted Kisses by Thomas G. Dunn
Park ‘N’ Ride by Michael Ennis
A Ballad for Peggy by Stephen Faria
Oops by James C. Ferguson
Escape to Wonderland by Patrick Gabridge
Game On by Gary Garrison
Our Part to Change by Susan Goodell
Big Squirrel Lick by Gregory Hischak
10 Years After Paradise by Israel Horovitz
The Mouse by Colleen Hughes
Every Seven Seconds by Dan Hunter
Beep…Doot by Aaron Kagan & Seth Soulstein
Slugger by Terrence Kidd
M. Riverside by John J King
Little Boys by Margaret Lagerstedt
Crickets by Emily Kaye Lazzaro
Trust Fall by Steve Lewis
Stuck by Christopher Lockheardt
Downward Facing Dog by Melinda Lopez
Squirrelly by James McLindon
Teddy Ballgame by Caitlin Mitchell
Casting Amanda by Jack Neary
Share This World by Ronan Noone
Cat in a Box by Julian Olf
The Resurrections by Catherine M. O’Neill
Birdbaths, “Twilight”, and Other Sundry Topics by Rick Park
Backfire by Leslie Powell
Those Still Living by April Ranger
Open House by Theresa Rebeck
Camberwell House by Amelia Roper
Uncommon Ground by John R. Sarrouf
Bible Study by Daniel Sauermilch
There’s an App for That! by Richard Schotter
A Handy Man by March Schrader
Rogue River, Oregon by Phil Schroeder
Perfect Strangers by Peter Snoad
Welcome to the Hate Store by Jan Velco Soolman
Ms. Connections by Erin Striff
One More to Go in Beantown by Debbie Wiess
A Tall Order by Sheri Wilner
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The Warm-Up Laps – May 21, 2011
Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts
527 Tremont Street, Boston
The Correspondent by Ken Urban
Reading begins at 1pm
Uncle Jack by Michael Hammond
Reading begins at 4pm
Deported by Joyce Van Dyke
Reading begins at 7pm
Free and open to the public – limited to 100 seats per performance – no reservations necessary.
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Boston Theater Marathon XIII – May 22, 2011
Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts
527 Tremont Street, Boston
TICKETS: $25 in advance / $35 at the door. To purchase tickets please visit www.bostonplaywrights.org or call 617-933-8600.
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The Theatre Community Benevolent Fund (TCBF) is a non-profit theatre community organization administered by StageSource for the benefit of its individual and organizational members and the theatre artists who are or have been employed by those organizations who face dire need and require financial assistance. TCBF provides financial relief in a confidential, respectful manner to individual and organizations facing extreme illness, catastrophic acts of nature, and other events such as vandalism/theft, and who have limited or no resources with which to handle such occurrences.
