It is with great pleasure that I announce that our 2015 “Perspectives in Criticism” keynote speaker will be my Chicago colleague, Hedy Weiss, one of the nation’s senior theatre critics and certainly one of the most feisty. Hedy has been covering theatre, dance and the arts...
Submissions for the 2015 Primus Prize are now welcome, with a deadline of April 30. This is a self-nominating award. For description of the required 20-page (maximum) portfolio, plus script, click here. ...
Please register for hotel rooms NOW! Our deadline for booking rooms is Feb. 22! At last check, only a few rooms remain guaranteed for Wednesday night and once the deadline is past, the cost for a one night stay will go up appreciably. To make...
NEW: FOR LATEST SCHEDULE FOR NEW ORLEANS, click here. .Register now for March 25-29: info here. Or visit New Orleans Convention & Visitors Bureau micro-site. Or go right to the ATCA registration page. Questions to host Alan Smason. NOTE THAT OUR SPECIAL HOTEL RATE IS GOOD ONLY UNTIL FEB. 22. Warm...
ATCA mourns the sudden death Feb. 3 of Andrew Patner, just 55, who was an engaged, articulate member of the Excom in the 1990s. A polymath — journalist, broadcaster and critic who covered classical music, opera, theater, dance, cabaret, visual art, architecture, books, films and public policy –...
The 44th annual induction ceremony of the Theater Hall of Fame, set for Jan. 26, was a casualty of the blizzard that closed the Broadway theaters. Executive producer Terry Hodge Taylor has rescheduled it for May 4. Ironically, all eight inductees were in town for the first...
Brochures for the New Orleans conference will be winging their way to ATCA members next week. We have a short window to make bookings (by Feb. 22). The rate of $159 per night is far and above the best rate in town for the French...
Laissez les bontemps rouler! The Big Easy beckons you and it’s open for business — ATCA business! Whether you call it the Crescent City, NOLA, N’Awlins or the Big Easy, you’ll find its French Quarter streets paved with beignets, chicory coffee, Sazeracs, pralines and Hurricanes (the...
Laissez les bontemps rouler at ATCA’s first-ever Annual Conference in New Orleans, one of America’s truly legendary cities. Come for the theatre and the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and stay for the voodoo and jazz, French Quarter streets paved with beignets and Sazeracs, vast Mardi Gras warehouses and...
Last call for members to propose plays for the Steinberg/ATCA Award and the Osborn Award for an emerging playwright. Both competitions reward excellence in playwriting, not production. The play must have had its world premiere in a full professional production during calendar 2014, but must not...