(Aug 28, 2018 UPDATE) Alan was selected as the first place recipient of the Breaking News category at the 60th Annual Press Club of New Orleans Excellence in Journalism Awards Gala. His story on the New Orleans Jewish community’s response to Hurricane Harvey (“New Orleans Community...
(June 22, 2018 UPDATE) Jackie Demaline, an occasional member of ATCA during her long career as a theater critic and arts reporter, died at the age of 68 in Cincinnati after a four-year battle with cancer. She began her career as an entertainment writer, editor, and...
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2018. The top award of $25,000 and two citations of...
The American Theatre Critics Association is pleased to announce that Spenser Davis has won the 2019 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright. The Osborn Award recognizes Davis’ “Plainclothes,” which premiered at The Den Theatre in Chicago. The award will be presented at the...
NOTE: ATCA is in the process of culling past minutes from notes provided to us by the family of the late Barbara Bannon. We will be posting any outstanding minutes here as soon as we can. January 22, 2018 ...
The American Theatre Critics Association, the United States national section of the International Association of Theatre Critics (AICT-IATC), was re-elected to the Executive Committee of IATC at the General Assembly during the association’s World Congress in St. Petersburg, Russia, on November 15. The congress was held in conjunction...
The annual induction of eight new members of the Theater Hall of Fame, for which the ATCA membership is the primary electorate, took place Nov 12. Shown is the ATCA page in the Hall of Fame program. For Chris Rawson’s lengthy Pittsburgh Post-Gazette account of...
At Sardi’s: Eric Marciano (representing Barry Primus) and Primus Prize winner Martyna Majok ATCA’s traditional gathering in NYC, Nov 2-4, was one of the best, with an array of useful, stimulating panels on Friday and Sunday and the always-entertaining brunch with the stars at Sardi’s on...
Barbara M. Bannon, the longtime secretary of the American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) executive commitee, who reviewed theatre in Utah for more than four decades, died on Thursday, October 11, 2018 at the Huntsman Cancer Institute following a protracted battle with pancreatic cancer. She was...
Acting, directing and playwriting are equally honored in the just announced 2018 inductees to the Theater Hall of Fame. The playwrights are Adrienne Kennedy and David Henry Hwang, plus Maria Irene Fornes, influential as much as an innovative director as playwright. The actors are Cicely Tyson (oldest of the inductees, in her...