Go to the N.Y. Times obit to sign the guestbook. Scroll to the bottom of the extension of Bill Hirschman’s testimonial to find the separate “How Ira Bilowit Saved the Drama Desk from Oblivion!” by Glenn Loney. ATCA chair Bill Hirschman writes: Ira Bilowit Ira J. Bilowit, the esteemed arts...
download Word .doc file Prepared by Barbara Bannon, ATCA Secretary Bill Hirschman called the meeting to order at 1:35 p.m. EDT. The following Ex-Com members were present: Susan Cohn, Charles Giuliano, Lou Harry, Brad Hathaway, Bill Hirschman, Kerry Reid, Wendy Rosenfield, and Martha Steketee. Barbara Bannon, ATCA...
download Word .doc file Prepared by Barbara Bannon, ATCA Secretary Bill Hirschman called the meeting to order at 1:35 p.m. EDT. The following Ex-Com members were present: Susan Cohn, Charles Giuliano, Lou Harry, Brad Hathaway, Bill Hirschman, Kerry Reid, Ed Rubin, and Martha Steketee. Barbara Bannon, ATCA...
The much-sought annual award goes to the big New Jersey company that is best known for its musicals. As it has been since it was started in 1976, the award is “based on a recommendation by the American Thetare Critics Association,” as noted in the announcement by...
For more substantive stuff, ATCA members should watch their email. Here, we hope to post some links. But in the meantime, below are Alan Smason (chair of last year’s conference in N’Orleans), Bill Hirschman (just reelected excom chair), and Howie Shapiro, sporting the peripatetic Conference Hat, which he has to...
download Word .doc file Prepared by Barbara Bannon, ATCA Secretary Bill Hirschman called the meeting to order at 9:07 a.m. EDT. The following Ex-Com members were present: Susan Cohn, Brad Hathaway, Bill Hirschman, Kerry Reid, Wendy Rosenfield, Ed Rubin, and Martha Steketee. Barbara Bannon, ATCA secretary, was...
Additional $7,500 citations go to Steven Dietz and Jen Silverman ATCA has selected Qui Nguyen’s “Vietgone” as the winner of the 2015 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2015. Qui Nguyen This “sexy comedy...
It was a two-play day (The Octoroon at the Wilma and Sex with Strangers at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, for most), following a busy membership meeting in the morning. There, the following new excom members were elected: to regular three-year terms, Bill Hirschman, Plantation, FL; Susan Cohn, San Mateo, CA; and Kerry Reid,...
Three conference chairs: Robert Sokol (next year, San Francisco), Alan Smason (last year, New Orleans) and Howie Shapiro (this year, right now, Philadelphia). And most of this year’s conference, on Friday at the (well, just where were we Friday? … it’s a bit of a buzz)....
The day began with a productive membership meeting in which, among much else, we broadened the criteria for memberhip to admit those writing about theater without necessarily doing traditional reviews. Barbara Bannon presented the 2015 Primus Prize (check, plaque, letter from Barry Primus) to Sharyn Rothstein, who made...