About The Boston Theater Marathon
The Boston Playwrights' Theatre produces the Boston Theater Marathon, an award-winning all-day marathon of new ten-minute plays. The plays are chosen from over 400 entries from New England playwrights, and the 50 selected plays are produced by 50 New England Theatre companies who donate their time to this event. Click here to learn more about the judging process. Generously supported over the years by the Boston University Humanities Foundation and by individual donations, the BTM gives net proceeds to the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund, an organization helping area theatre artists and companies in crisis.
In 2009, thanks to our new association with the Boston Center for the Arts, the BTM expanded to include a weekend of full-length play readings. In addition to its charitable goals, the BTM matches playwrights with theatre companies, introduces patrons to the diversity of Boston playwriting and theatre scene, and provides a showcase for the entire theatre community.
Thanks to a generous gift of space from the Huntington Theatre Company, the Boston Theater Marathon is held each Spring at the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA in Boston's South End. Click here for directions.
The heart of the BTM is the one-day festival. The plays begin at 12 noon and are performed continuously until 10 PM.
In 2000, the BTM received a special Elliot Norton Award from the Boston Theatre Critics Association for "Enlivening Local Theatre."
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