ATCA/New Orleans
Conference chair Alan Smason has unveiled the emblem/logo for ATCA’s New Orleans conference (March 25-29). Watch this space (and your mailbox) for details about hotel, registration, schedule, etc. ...
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NY conference pix coming soon
Rob McClure & Wendy RosenfieldJonathan Abarbanel More pix here; more on the way. Happy Thanksgiving! ...
New York weekend conference
For some accounts of the Nov. 7-9, 2014 conference organized by Sherry Eaker and Ira Bilowit, click here. Blythe DannerSherry EakerBarbara Bannon & Stefanie ZadravecCady HuffmanTina Howe. Whean asked what she wanted from critics, she said, “illumination!” and opened the book in front of her.Jay Handelman &...
NY conference packed with panels, people, plays
Blythe Danner at Sardi’s For a packet of snippets from the Sardi’s Lunch with the Stars, watch this video of excerpts by Sandi Durell. Here, Tony Danza talks about boxing, teaching, and Arthur Miller. And here, playwright Doug Wright talks about making characters out of real people. Perspectives in Criticism: playwrights...
Stefanie Zadravec at Sardi’s
Stefanie Zadravec (at left, Barbara Bannon) Receiving her 2013 Primus Prize plaque at last (she had received the $10,000 check long ago) for her play, “The Electric Baby,” Stefanie Zadravec spoke briefly but with passion about the recognition (and lack thereof) of female playwrights, citing the “50-50 in 2020”...
Updates on NY Meeting, Nov. 7-9
It’s not a law firm: It’s Mark Linn Baker, Blythe Danner, Tony Danza, Julie Halston, Cady Huffman, Elizabeth Ashley, Tina Howe, Doug Wright (and more) who will join ATCA members for brunch at Sardi’s on Saturday, Nov. 8, a highlight of the New York Weekend. Also joining us...
U.S. retains seat on IATC Executive Committee
Handelman and Abarbanel in front of an old theatre stage in Duan Village, a tiny rural town in Yunnan Province. ATCA excom chair Jonathan Abarbanel reports: The United States was easily re-elected to the Executive Committee of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC) at the recently-concluded 27th IATC World...
NY conference Nov. 7-9 extends Early Bird registration to Oct. 31
Early Bird registration at $165 (members) and $175 (guests), which includes Brunch with the Stars at Sardi’s on Saturday morning, has been extended through Oct. 31, then goes up $20. Brunch alone for member or guest is $65. More here. ...
Beijing World Congress
At the 37th World Congress of the International Association of Theatre Critics, meeting in Beijing, China, Oct. 15-20, ATCA was represented by three chairs: Jonathan Abarbanel (ATCA excom), Jay Handelman (Foundation ATCA) and Jeffrey Eric Jenkins (ATCA International Committee). For the congress symposium on “A New World: The Profession of Criticism in...
ATCA Member Blogs and Links
David Dow Bentley III is the thepeoplescritic.com, which can also be read at the Houston Chronicle and broadwaystars.com. Nancy Bishop is editor and publisher of Third Coast Review, a Chicago-centric arts and culture website. You can read her reviews there and her pop culture writing here. Lindsay Christians is a full-time arts and food writer for The...