Boston Playwrights' Theatre presents the eleventh annual Boston Theater Marathon on May 17th from 12 noon to 10 pm. Join this award-winning charity festival - 50 ten-minute plays by 50 New England playwrights presented by 50 New England theatre companies in 10 hours. Come and go as you please with your all-day pass.

This year the Boston Theater Marathon will include The Warm Up Laps on May 16th featuring three staged readings, including Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck's The Novelist, directed by Huntington Theatre Company Artistic Director Peter DuBois. These readings are free and open to the public. The Warm Up Laps are presented in association with the Boston Center for the Arts.