Charles Edward Whaley Charles Edward Whaley, long-term ATCA member, died Oct. 30, 2025 at the age of 97. Whaley was a journalist who covered education and the arts in the course of a seven-decade career. He was born on February 29, 1928 in Williamstown, in Grant County,...
Citlali Pizarro (she/her) For Citlali Pizarro, theater was her first love in elementary school and a long-lasting one that lasted into high school and beyond. But her other passion, writing, came into life in college, and she pursued it more fully by reporting on prisons after...
Citlali Pizarro (she/her) NEW YORK, NY | Oct. 29, 2025 – The American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association will award writer and producer Citlali Pizarro (she/her) the fourth annual Edward Medina Prize for Excellence in Cultural Criticism on Nov. 8 during its 2025 conference in New York. ATCA created...
Kelundra SmithPrimary Outlet: American Theatre Kelundra Smith ATCA profiled Smith back in April 2021, and we wanted to catch up with her activities since then. She has guided the annual Edward Medina Prize for Excellence in Cultural Criticism that has been awarded since 2022, assumed the position...
NEW YORK -- The Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee has announced the 2025 Henry Hewes Design Awards Honorees who will be recognized at the 61th annual ceremony on October 20, 2025 in New York. The 2025 Awards recognize artistry on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway stages for...
Jay Handelman As shared with ATCA members in the August 13, 2025 THE UPDATE newsletter, colleague Jay Handelman has decided to shift his professional homebase from his long-term home at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune for an outlet he is developing. He has no plans to leave his...
July 15, 2025 — The Theater Hall of Fame announced today the 2025 class of inductees. ATCA members join past Hall of Fame inductees to vote on these annual honors. The 2025 cohort includes: mentor-playwright and co-founder of the SITI Company Anne Bogart, National Endowment for the...
Design by Ashlie Juarbe New York -- The American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association (ATCA) announces applications open July 1 for the fourth annual Edward Medina Prize for Excellence in Cultural Criticism. The application deadline is Friday, August 15 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. The Edward Medina Prize for Excellence...
Edward "Fast Eddy" Rubin EDWARD RUBIN, an iconoclastic theater critic, arts critic and curator, who wrote for decades about theater and the visual arts, died after a protracted battle with bladder cancer at Calvary Hospital on June 15, 2025. He was 84. Rubin, who went by the...
In the past few months, there has been a disturbing number of actions taken at the behest of the current presidential administration solely for the purpose of silencing dissenting voices. While these actions have impacted all members of a free society, within the theater ecosystem,...