Fractured Atlas cannot currently accept donations for Marxfest 2024 because their fiscal sponsorship is inactive or expired. Please contact Marxfest 2024 with any questions.
Marxfest 2024 will be a Marx Brothers celebration of unprecedented proportions! Taking place over two glorious weekends (May 17-19 in Manhattan, May 24-26 at Coney Island), this magnificent display of effusion will be packed with special guests, talks, performances, and surprises.
At this point, you might expect us to rest on our laurels, to simply sit back and enjoy our unparalleled track record of producing once-in-a-lifetime Marx Brothers experiences in New York City.
But no. In 2024, to mark the centennial of the New York opening of I'll Say She Is AND the 110th anniversary of their epochal vaudeville tab Home Again (as well as the 10th anniversary of Marxfest itself!), we're going to greater effort than ever before to give die-hard Marxians a thrill!
Of course, assertions like that can only be followed by a request for donations. Well, it’s true: Making Marxfest 2024 a reality will depend partly on your support, and so we ask you to please consider making a donation, small or large. Especially large. Your tax-deductible donation will help make Marxfest 2024 the greatest event in the history of the world. (Donations made through this crowdfunding campaign are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law.)
Your donation will help us pay for a wide range of needs involved in a massive undertaking like this: facilities costs, digital and printed materials, insurance, honorariums for our guest presenters, equipment, administrative staff, and more.
Please join our mailing list at marxfest.org to stay in the loop -- and who knows, subscribers to our mailing list might even find special offers and advance scoops in their inboxes.
Please also consider helping with this effort by sharing this campaign on social media, in emails, on immense roadside billboards, and in tastefully-produced window displays! #marxfest
PLEASE NOTE: At some of the higher donation levels, rewards include tickets to Marxfest events (in the form of our Virtual Pass and All-Festival Pass). These are being made available to our supporters here, prior to tickets going on sale to the general public. When tickets go on sale, they will be available at marxfest.org. It is not necessary to donate to this crowdfunding campaign in order to attend Marxfest events, and the donation amounts are not the ticket prices.
Rewards: Special thanks in our program and on our website
For some, it’s all about personal glory. For some, it’s fame and fortune. But for others, the greatest achievement available on Earth is to be thanked on the Marxfest website and in the Marxfest program. This may sound too good to be true, but for a mere $25 donation, Mrs. Potter, those special thanks can be yours!
Rewards: Marxfest Magnet, special thanks in our program and on our website
If you’re the simple type, who can be content with some thanks in our program and on our website, we say, more power to ya! If, on the other hand, you’re one of those elite types who also needs a Marxfest Magnet to seal the deal – well, we’d be happy to indulge you! A $50 donation at the Mrs. Phelps level gets you the thanks and the magnet, you snob!
Rewards: Marxfest Poster, Marxfest Magnet, special thanks in our program and on our website
Okay – we know, we know. You love the Marx Brothers, and you’re eager to support Marxfest, but somehow, some special thanks and a magnet just won’t do it for you. You’re perfectly willing to help with the Marxfest effort, Mrs. Upjohn -- even to the tune of a generous $100 donation. You’ll happily collect the special thanks as well as the Marxfest Magnet. But you’re going to need a little something extra. You’re going to need an official Marxfest poster – something worth a hundred Upjohns!
Rewards: Marxfest Poster, Marxfest Magnet, special thanks, and one All-Festival Pass
Well, now we’re really getting to the high rollers. Obviously, Mrs. Claypool, if you were to donate a hefty $500 to the noble cause of Marxfest, we would have to give you the Marxfest Magnet and the Marxfest Poster – it is only fair and decent. And of course, we’d have no choice but to thank you on our website and in our program. After all, we’re not monsters! But more than that: Rewards at the Mrs. Claypool level also include one All-Festival Pass, which grants access to every Marxfest event, including the “Party of the First Part” VIP reception on May 17.
Rewards: Marxfest Poster, Marxfest Magnet, special thanks, and two All-Festival Passes
All right, then, Mrs. Teasdale – make that two All-Festival Passes (which grant access to every Marxfest event, including the “Party of the First Part” VIP reception on May 17), plus the Marxfest Magnet, the Marxfest Poster, and the same special thanks we’re offering to that cheap chiseler, Mrs. Claypool!
Rewards: Marxfest Poster, Marxfest Magnet, special thanks, and five All-Festival Passes
Well, well, well, Mrs. Rittenhouse, we wondered when you’d show up here! $2500 is such a beautifully generous donation to the grand Marxfest dream, it seems only right that we grant you the same junk we’re tossing at Mrs. Teasdale – but with five All-Festival Passes, which grant access to every Marxfest event, including the “Party of the First Part” VIP reception on May 17.
