2018 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
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 ...
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ATCA Re-Elected to IATC Executive Committee
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...
2018 Theater Hall of Fame
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...
ATCA in NY: panels, Sardi’s luncheon, NCI and more
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 Bannon [1939 – 2018]
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...
Eight 2018 honorees announced for Theater Hall of Fame
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...
Hilton Als inducted into LGBTQ Journalists Hall of Fame
Award-winning theatre critic, writer and educator Hilton Als is among the 2018 inductees to the LGBTQ Journalists Hall of Fame as annouced by NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists. The induction will take place on September 8 during NLGJA’s National Convention in Palm Springs, CA....
2018 Executive Committee Election Results
Chris Jones, Wendy Rosenfield, and Martha Steketee have each been elected to a three-year term on the executive committee. They join six other elected members and will take office later this month at an organizational meeting to be held after this week’s conference in Spring Green. We extend sincere...
Martyna Majok wins 2017 Primus Prize
Martyna Majok has been awarded the 2017 Francesca Primus Prize for her play Cost of Living. Jointly sponsored by ATCA and the Francesca Ronnie Primus Foundation, the Primus Prize is given annually to an emerging woman playwright. Majok has received the $10,000 award check and will...
Wendi Winters [1953-2018]
The shooting at the Capital Gazette Reporter in Annapolis on June 28, 2018, claimed five lives including that of arts writer Wendi Winters, a contributor to DC Metro Theatre Arts and a colleague of ATCA member David Siegel, who shares the following reflection: “It is with utter sadness that I...