Boston Theater Marathon XI

Plus the Warm-Up Laps

May 16 – 17, 2009

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.

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and the Boston Center for the Arts team with local theatre companies in Marathon expansion

BOSTON, MA – After ten years, the Boston Theater Marathon will expand to a two-day, weekend-long event.  The expansion is part of a multi-year plan to develop the Boston Theater Marathon to include multiple venues, hundreds of performers and thousands of cultural tourists and Boston theatre patrons – not unlike Edinburgh’s famed festival.

The Warm-Up Laps – May 16, 2009

The expansion of the Boston Theater Marathon will include three staged readings of new plays, including Pulitzer Award nominee Theresa Rebeck’s The Novelist, directed by the Huntington Theatre Company’s Artistic Director Peter DuBois.  The readings will be at 11am, 3pm and 7pm at the Calderwood Pavilion’s Deane Rehearsal Hall at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Boston Theater Marathon XI – May 17, 2009

Now in its eleventh year, the Boston Theater Marathon will feature fifty ten-minute plays by fifty New England playwrights performed by fifty New England theatres from 12 noon to 10pm at the Virginia Wimberly Theatre at the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts on Sunday, May 17.

“The Boston Theater Marathon brings together the entire theatre community of Boston,” explains Marathon co-founder Kate Snodgrass.  “With our friends at the Boston Center for the Arts, we hope in the coming years to bring the entire city of Boston together in the similar spirit of Edinburgh’s festival.”

The Warm-Up Laps – May 16, 2009
Deane Rehearsal Hall at the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 2^nd Floor
527 Tremont Street, Boston

Free and open to the public – limited to 100 seats

The Publick Theatre presents
Jacob and the Stranger
by Alan Brody
Directed by Diego Arciniegas
Reading begins at 11am

Company One presents
Annie Desmond Gets a Tattoo
by Kirsten Greenidge
Directed by Shawn LaCount
Reading begins at 3pm

The Huntington Theatre Company presents
The Novelist 
by Theresa Rebeck
Directed by Peter DuBois
Reading begins at 7pm

Boston Theater Marathon XI – May 17, 2009

Virginia Wimberly Theatre at the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts

527 Tremont Street, Boston

TICKETS (on sale soon): $25 in advance / $30 at the door.  To purchase tickets please visit www.bostontheatrescene.com or call 617-933-8600.

Plays, playwrights and producing theatre companies to be announced soon.  For more information please visit www.bostonplaywrights.org or call 617-353-5443.

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