The Boston Theater Marathon is a charity event consisting of many plays performed by many different theater companies in a limited amount of time. The 2008 event, scheduled for May 11, comprises 50 plays at 50 houses performed in 10 hours. The event was established in 1999 and has won the Elliot Norton award.
Founders Kate Snodgrass (Artistic Director of Boston Playwrights' Theatre) and Bill Lattanzi began it to match playwrights with producing theatre companies. Founded in 1981 by poet playwright and Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott, Boston Playwrights' Theatre is an award-winning small professional theatre dedicated to promoting Over 400 plays have been performed since 1999, with about 50 performed each spring. It is funded in part by the Boston University Humanities Foundation. For similarly-named academic institutions see Education in Boston MA.
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