Somewhere on the way westward from Pittsburgh on the multi-leg flight necessary to keep the price down, I saw a placard declaring this National Ice Cream Month. Actually, it’s always National Ice Cream Month for me. But on first encounter with Ashland, it seemed providential:...
Caldwell Titcomb, a familiar presence at many ATCA meetings for decades who had a long career at Brandeis and elsewhere in the Boston area as a critic, composer and professor of criticism and music, died June 13 of complications from leukemia and pneumonia. He was 84. One of...
”Regional theater wasn’t a big turn-on for me when I was a theater student in the late 1980s, early 1990s. Off-Broadway was cool; off-off-Broadway was cooler. Those subscription-based behemoths scattered around the country like giant shopping malls sounded dorky to me… . ” Charles McNulty, theater...
Jim O’Quinn is the founding editor of American Theatre, now in its 26th year as the lively house organ of the American regional and not-for-profit theater universe. His articles and reviews have appeared elsewhere, he was a regular theatre reviewer for the now-defunct Manhattan weekly 7 Days, and he...
ATCA’s Daumier critic prepares to go pen-to-pen with the Bard! Final conference schedule to come shortly (no substantial changes from what was previously announced). ...
ATCA’s 2011 conference, July 6-10, features the famous, Tony-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the attractive Ashland and surroundings. The variability of our schedule allows free time during the week. Mornings will include ATCA meetings, theater panels, a session on the digital critic and a Perspectives...
The first deadline for the 2011 ATCA annual conference at the OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL in Ashland, July 6-10, is the early registration date of May 20, after which the fee goes up $10. More important, there are already fewer rooms available at our headquarters, the Ashland...
In the drop-down Commentary menu (above), a new category, Position Papers, has joined Perspectives in Criticism (the ATCA series that began in 1992) and Criticism in Controversy (newsy battles that start on the Home page before accumulating there). The newest Position Paper transcribes the Perspectives in Criticism panel...
This year’s Pulitzer Prize for Criticism has gone to Sebastian Smee of the Boston Globe for his art criticism. Finalists (i.e. runners-up) were food critic Jonathan Gold of the LA Weekly and architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff (for the umpteenth time) of the N.Y. Times. The criticism award was initiated in 1970,...
Many ATCAns attend Humana and we use it to hand out the Steinberg/ATCA and Osborn awards, so these review articles might be of interest: Julie York Coppens; Charles Isherwood; Chris Rawson (sidebar on Marc Masterson, who’s on his way to South Coast Rep); Don Shirley (mainly an interview of Masterson). If you...