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...
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. ...
Rob McClure & Wendy RosenfieldJonathan Abarbanel More pix here; more on the way. Happy Thanksgiving! ...
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 &...
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 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”...
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...
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...
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. ...