ATCA's ongoing Zoom event series will next focus on the art and practice of podcasting. On March 24, 2022 in yet another members-only event, Executive Committee member Elizabeth Kramer will moderate a conversation with three people working in podcasting from around the country and from...
Makasha Copeland (they/them) NEW YORK – Makasha Copeland has won the American Theatre Critics Association’s (ATCA) 2022 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award for their play “Extreme Home Makeover.” Given by ATCA in memory of critic, director, educator and new play advocate M. Elizabeth “Betty” Osborn (1941-1993), the...
Chiara Atikl (she/her) NEW YORK – Playwright Chiara Atik has won the 2022 Harold and Mimi Steinberg / American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for her play “Poor Clare.” The Steinberg/ATCA Award, which carries a $25,000 cash prize, recognizes an outstanding script that premiered professional outside...
Robert Falls The April 2022 ATCA Connects conversation will honor a long-standing career that capture three decades of a great theater town's great theater. On April 19, 2022 at 8pm Eastern, the next ATCA Connects session will feature a conversation between Robert Falls, the outgoing artistic...
Jeffrey Eric Jenkins issued a heartfelt, resonant statement entitled "Building Bridges in a Time of Trial" in his role as President of the International Association of Theatre Critics (AICT-IATC) for World Theatre Day 2022. The statement, posted on the IACT website on March 25,...
Jonathan Abarbanel In June 2021 former ATCA ExCom chair Jonathan Abarbanel officially retired from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Theatre & Music, after 14 years as an adjunct professor. He says his State of Illinois pension should "just about cover a daily Starbucks."...
Over the past few decades, theater criticism has moved from newspapers and magazines to blogs, social media, video and more. This month's topic for the splendid series of on-line programming developed by ATCA committees over the past year is newsletters. Lindsay Christians by Maureen Janson...
Terrance Afer-AndersonNorfolk, VirginiaPrimary Outlet: The New Journal and Guide Terrance Afer-Anderson Basics first: where do you work (do reviews) and how long have you been there? I have written theater criticism and feature stories, off and on, for The New Journal and Guide, the third oldest African American...
NEW YORK -- The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected five finalists for the 2022 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, recognizing playwrights of the best scripts that premiered professionally outside of New York City in 2021. “Despite all the difficulties theaters faced during...
Jeffrey Eric Jenkins, President of the International Association of Theatre Critics (AICT-IATC) and ATCA member and leader of several decades, continues to share communications from AICT-IATC and member sections on the evolving situation in Ukraine. Theater around the world brings worlds together, sometimes in horror,...