Some of the attendees from the Chicago Conference, which Jonathan Abarbanel so masterfully put together, have come to Milwaukee for an “add on” arranged by Anne Siegel. Among our stops today was the Broadway Theater Center — home to the Skylight Music Theatre, The Milwaukee...
Lou Harry’s review of “Eastland” at Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre. Click here. ...
Charles Giuliano reviews “Eastland” at Lookingglass (click here) and then responds to the ATCA website: Overall the Chicago conference was rich and insightful. Johnathan did a great job of organizing theatre and panels. I enjoyed meeting and interacting with other critics. It would have been better to have that...
Caridad Svich Chicago, June 15 — In response to being honored at the 2012 ATCA annual conference for winning the 2011 Francesca Primus Prize, playwright Caridad Svich delivered a poetic evocation of “the dare of the page.” She began with thanks to ATCA, the Francesca Ronnie Primus Foundation, Isabel Allende...
June 17, Sunday - 10AM-Noon, continental breakfast, final General Membership Meeting, Silk Road Rising, 77 W. Washington Street, lower level. NOTE: the Chicago Temple Building houses a church in which services will be going on as we meet; please enter quietly and take the stairs or elevator down...
The conference so far has gone off without a major hitch and conference chair Jonathan Abarbanel deserves kudos and awe. In addition to the worthy productions we’ve seen, there has been a great deal to be learned talking with artistic directors discovering what they have...
Lou Harry, Indianapolis: By accident rather than design, the first three plays of my current Chicago theater jag (where I’m participating in the American Theatre Critics Association conference) focused on (and, in two cases, were created primarily by) African-Americans. And while the results were mixed, collectively,...
Chicago, June 15 — In a series extending back to 1992, Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal theater critic, delivered the Perspective in Criticism talk at the ATCA annual conference. Its success could be measured by the many conversations (and arguments) it occasioned. “Terry Teachout may be America’s...
Scroll down for news about 2013 conference in West Virginia and award of 2012 Primus Prize to Tammy Ryan. ALSO: read about this ATCA conference on the ATCA Blog (see link at top of page). New ATCA members enjoy their first conference: left to right, Jack Lyons (Desert...
Chicago, June 14 — The American Theatre Critics Association voted today to hold its 2013 conference at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The festival will be offering two commissioned productions and several other new works and staged readings, to be announced later in the...