Sentence examples for play marathon from inspiring English sources

Intriguing women populate Series B of the Ensemble Studio Theater's 2011 one-act play marathon.

There are table tennis balls all over the place — the girls play marathon games on a table that occupies the loft of a free-standing barn, and Mr. Aaron said he got so tired of replacing lost balls that he recently purchased one gross of them.

Ensemble Studio Theater's annual one-act-play marathon is always entertaining and rich in solid performances, but each of the bills — Series A, B and C — often has one play that stands out.

When she walks into the Tricycle, where she is performing in The Great Game, a 12-play marathon about Afghanistan hailed by Michael Billington in the Guardian as "mind-blowing", I recognise her at once.

At 69, Mr. McCartney is not saying goodbye but touring stadiums and playing marathon concerts.

With Pete Best on drums and Stuart Sutcliffe on bass, they played marathon gigs of several hours each, fortifying themselves with beer and amphetamines.

IT'S that time of the year again: jam-band convergence, when New York City's rock halls fill with bands playing marathon sets, settling in on their way to New Year's Eve.

If your parents (or just your father) have convinced themselves that you are playing marathon games of Candy Land at your boyfriend's place, let them persist in that defense mechanism.

Records will be dismissed if they are considered stupid, dangerous or illegal, or if there isn't enough evidence: an organist's playing marathon was rejected because it was only witnessed by her parents.

One of its early claims to fame was a stunningly played marathon: all six of Bartok's perilously difficult string quartets during a long evening at Alice Tully Hall in 1981.

That black-and-white picture is now an iconic symbol of the days when Lennon and his band - hopped up on Holsten beer and over-the-counter uppers called Preludin - played marathon shows, fraternized with strippers and, along the way, became the Beatles, forever enshrining Hamburg's improbable place in the rock cosmology.