For the full text of each Milestone, click on the name; for all these and previous Milestones together, CLICK HERE. They are listed in the order (latest on top) they appeared in the weekly ATCA UPDATE.
KAREN TOPHAM, Chicago, is actively seeking theatre critics from around the country to become part of the expanded edition of her website, ChicagoOnStage.com. Contact her here.
ALAN SMASON, New Orleans, has launched a new website, seeks to post reviews from legitimate critics country-wide.
JOEL MARKOWITZ received a moving radio tribute Dec. 21.
RICK PENDER, Cincinnati, OH, has signed a contract to assemble The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia, a comprehensive reference anticipated to be completed in late 2019.
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After more than 33 years and (by her count) 13,000 reviews, the long-standing Chicago theater and arts critic Hedy Weiss has been let go by the Chicago Sun-Times. Reporting in the competing Chicago Tribune, Chris Jones writes that the sometimes controversial critic “fit into the decades-long Chicago tradition of powerful, hard-working and famously independent women writing about the arts, without compromise or apology.” Read Jones here. Here, the Chicago Business Journal reports. Weiss delivered ATCA’s 2015 Perspectives in Criticism talk in New Orleans: click for an audio recording.
Martha Steketee’s accumulating interviews of critics for The Clyde Fitch Report (click for index).
See ATCA International for news of the International Association of Theatre Critics from the ATCA members who represent us there. See also the IATC’s own site (just [2017] handsomely redesigned) and its web journal, Critical Stages, where the current issue deals at length with Contemporary African Drama and Theatre.
{For collected Pull Quotes going back to July, 2012, CLICK HERE.}
I “believe in culture as a social justice and social change project, which requires not just looking at how ‘good’ a performance is, but at what it does in the world.” — Jill S. Dolan, critic for “The Feminist Spectator” (Princeton University, Dean of the College).
“The Internet allows an avalanche of opinion for infinite sources, many of them rubbish, mean-spirited and lazy. But there’s some terrific writing out there too, and best of all there are so many new ways of reviewing.” — Frank Rizzo, 33 years as Hartford Courant critic, now writes for Variety and many more.
* Previous Pull Quotes are ASSEMBLED HERE.
New York Weekend Conference, November 3, 4 and 5, 2017. Details.
Some coverage: day one, day two, day three-A, day three-B, day four, day five. Full schedule here. 
2015 New Orleans Conference
Alan Smason, chair
2014 Weekend Conference
New York City 
2014 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Humana Festival, Actors Theater of Louisville, April 2-6; chair, Jonathan Abarbanel.
Logo by Tim Menees after Honore Daumier
2013 WEEKEND CONFERENCE
Indianapolis, Indiana
March 21-24, 2013
Lou Harry, Chair
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2012 WEEKEND MEETING
Colorado New Play Summit
Denver Center Theatre Company, Feb 10-12, 2012
2011 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Ashland, Oregon July 6-10, 2011
Chris Rawson, Chair
Logo by Tim Menees after Honore Daumier
2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, Conn.
Chris Rawson, Chair 
Playwright and critic
Playwright and two critics
Check out: ATCA Blog — scroll back for accounts of ATCA/Ashland, ATCA/O’Neill, more on the Pulitzer controversy, also from Humana and Denver festivals
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(above) Sarasota, 2009.
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Florida Theatre On Stage, Bill Hirschman, ed. (includes links to answers)
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 10:05PM 
ATCA’s Daumier critic prepares to go pen-to-pen with the Bard!
Final conference schedule to come shortly (no substantial changes from what was previously announced).
