World Theatre Day (WTD) has been celebrated around the world since 1962 on the 27th of March as both a party and a commitment. The organization's website notes (using British spellings) that the day "is a celebration for those who can see the value and...
NEW YORK — The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) today announced six finalists for the 2024 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, recognizing the playwrights who produced the best scripts that premiered professionally outside of New York City in 2023. The top award, which carries...
After years (and years) of declining theater critic opportunities, the retirement of the great Peter Marks leads to an opportunity for the profession: a full time gig at the Washington post with the expectation to cover DC, New York, and beyond. The online job description begins...
New York, NY – (February 28, 2024) -- The Theatre World Awards Board of Directors has announced two of the individuals to be honored at 78th Annual Theatre World Awards to be held on Monday evening, June 10, 2024 beginning at 7:00 p.m. at a...
Claudia Woolston Harris For many years, Claudia Harris was a power broker in ATCA. Without her support, I might never have been elected to the Executive Committee in 1990 just a couple of years after joining the organization. Past leaders Nancy Melich and Elizabeth Maupin were...
Naveen Kumar and David John Chávez at #ATCANY2023 November 10, 2023. Photo by Martha Wade Steketee. New York, December 31 — The ATCA Perspectives in Criticism series added its newest chapter on November 10, 2023, the first day of the ATCA New York City conference "Holding...
Gloria Oladipo Journalist Gloria Oladipo was in a library in September when she got a phone call and learned that a jury of theater, journalism, and communications professionals had named her The American Theatre Critics Association’s second annual recipient of the Edward Medina Prize for Excellence...
The 59th Henry Hewes Design Award Honors were announced September 19, 2023 and celebrated at a luncheon held at the Palm restaurant on West 50th Street in Manhattan, the first in-person awards ceremony since fall 2019. The warm and welcoming awards ceremony, was hosted by...
Gloria Oladipo NEW YORK – The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) will award critic and journalist Gloria Oladipo (she/her) the second annual Edward Medina Prize for Excellence in Cultural Criticism at its November 2023 conference in New York. ATCA created this new award to honor their late...
ATCA will hold its annual meeting in New York City November 10-12, 2023. This is the second time that ATCA members have convened in the same physical space since Fall 2019, and the first since last year's successful midtown meeting entitled "Reseated and In Person,"...