In a recent email appeal, Foundation president Jay Handelman notes its many good works, including scholarships and travel funds for critics, support for new ATCA members, subsidies of mini-conferences, the Osborn Prize for emerging playwrights, etc. This is the time of year for a tax-deductible contribution, especially...
ATCA’s 2018 annual conference will be held July 10-15, 2018 at American Players Theatre, a classical repertory company in the hills along the Wisconsin River, about 40 miles west of Madison, Wisconsin. APT, Hill Theatre (Saina Bashir, The Cap Times) Early conference plans include four plays with a fifth optional...
Ernie Schier (1918-99), ATCA co-founder, director of the National Critics Institute, “Schier of the Inquirer,” dramaturg and mentor, was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame on Nov. 13, along with an induction class of actors Audra McDonald, Marin Mazzie and Matthew Broderick, playwrights Tina Howe and Arthur Kopit and producersOskar Eustis andDaryl Roth. Ernie’s induction...
Joel lost his battle with ALS on November 7 in the presence of his family. Joel was an enthusiastic proponent of theatre at each level — amateur and professional, big or small. He founded the website DC Metro Theater Arts which gave an outlet to dozens of...
As the ATCA gathering in NY ended, everyone headed home to tend to theater there. Columns, blogs and pictures, plus Facebook and Twitter, recorded the panels, interviews and shows in NYC. Here are a few pix (mainly from the Sardi’s gathering) to add to those previous posted (scroll...
More pictures coming (though you can see some now on Twitter at #atcaNY17). But first, here’s Lauren Yee (left), receiving her plaque for the $10,000 Francesca Primus Prize from Primus Prize chair Barbara Bannon (center) and Patsy Kahn, representing Barry Primus and the Primus Foundation. The...
Follow all the action on Twitter at #atcaNY17 For one thing, there’s a tweet-post competition under way, so posts proliferate. And that’s where you’ll find pictures like the following explained. Tony, Tony, who’s got the Tony (at the League of Broadway Theatre office)Panel, panel … . ...
ATCA Executive Committee Meeting Conference Call | July 19, 2017 DOWNLOAD Bill Hirschman called the meeting to order at 3:05 p.m. EDT. All of the Ex-Com members were present: Charles Giuliano, Lou Harry, Brad Hathaway, Bill Hirschman, Kerry Reid, Frank Rizzo, Ed Rubin, Simon Saltzman, and Martha...
A small Philadelphia theater asked critics not to review a short run of a new play that had been fully publicized. Wendy Rosenfield of the Broad Street Review responded; the responses to her increase the interest of all this to theater critics elsewhere. ...