Registration is open for members and their guests for ATCANY2022 Reseated and In Person, ATCA's first annual conference to be hosted in New York City since we began meeting at the O'Neill Center starting in 1974. Executive Committee Chair David John Chávez has written to ATCA...
After many months of planning, ATCA will gather in New York City Friday November 11 -- Sunday November 13, with a full weekend of programming and events that include access to Broadway and Off Broadway shows. The dedicated eight-member conference committee is working with producers and...
ATCANY2022 Reseated and In Person ATCA will hold its annual meeting Reseated and In Person in New York City November 11-13, 2022. This will be the first time that ATCA members have convened in the same physical space since Fall 2019, and will be the first...
Sylvie Drake The ATCA Executive Committee unanimously voted earlier this month to add veteran critic, mentor, writer, and scholar Sylvie Drake to the ATCA roster of Emeritus members honored for career distinction and service to ATCA. The most recent prior addition to the Emeritus roster of...
ATCA member Kelundra Smith, co-founder of the Belonging, Equity, Inclusion & Diversity Committee, has been recognized by her home town press club for editorial work. As she announced on social media in late July, she won her first Atlanta Press Club Award for "New Flavor...
The Foundation ATCA board is in the initial stages of launching a new project to explore how the Foundation can best use its resources to support the future of theater criticism and arts journalism. The Foundation is looking for ATCA member volunteers to join a...
New York — The Foundation of the American Theatre Critics Association held its annual meeting on Aug. 9 and elected new members to the board and a slate of officers. Jay Handelman of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune was re-elected as president, and he begins his 10th...
Edward Medina NEW YORK — The American Theatre Critics Association announces that entries are open for the inaugural Edward Medina Prize for Excellence in Cultural Criticism. The deadline for applications is August 31, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. This new award is for theater critics and journalists in...
Billy McEntee. Photo by Jake White. NEW YORK—The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) and Foundation ATCA have announced the first recipient of the ATCA Helbing fellowship for LGBTQ+ theater writers. Members of the Helbing Committee reviewed applications submitted from January through April of 2022 and selected...
The UK publication Theatre Record ("chronicling the British Stage since 1981") now has a shiny new website and a new editor, Alison Cook. "We have enhanced some areas, including improving the search engine, so from the launch of the new website you can search for...