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...
Alvin Epstein The eight 2014 inductees into the Theater Hall of Fame include actor F. Murray Abraham (currently in It’s Only A Play), legendary actor Alvin Epstein (original N.Y. cast of Waiting for Godot), Tony-winning actor Blythe Danner (now in The Country House), director Marshall Mason, former N.Y. Times theater critic Frank Rich, chairman of the Shubert Organization Philip J....
Playwright Jennifer Haley has been awarded the 2014 Francesca Primus Prize for her play The Nether. Haley will receive the $10,000 award check immediately and be officially celebrated at an upcoming ATCA conference. Jointly sponsored by ATCA and the Francesca Ronnie Primus Foundation, the Primus Prize is given annually...
ATCA members received nominations and ballots several weeks ago. Voting is fun, but it’s also a service to the American theater and it provides well-earned pleasure for the winners. If you need a replacement ballot, contact ATCA’s man on the Hall’s executive committee, Chris Rawson (cchr@pitt.edu). ...
RECENT PRIMUS PRIZE WINNERS Playwright Jennifer Haley has been awarded the 2014 Francesca Primus Prize for her play The Nether. Haley will receive the $10,000 award check immediately and be officially celebrated at an upcoming ATCA conference. Jointly sponsored by ATCA and the Francesca Ronnie Primus Foundation, the Primus Prize is...
*Added June 9: Here’s a video of Signature’s Tony Award acceptance speech, nicely including ATCA.* The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced April 28 that the 2014 Regional Theatre Award will go to New York’s Signature Theatre, based on the recommendation of ATCA, which makes its choice through a confidential internal...
Louisville, KY, April 5, 2014 — ATCA has named Lauren Gunderson’s I and You recipient of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2013. Gunderson’s delicate but droll play about teenagers exploring life and death received...
For immediate release: Feb. 27, 2014 The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2013. At $40,000, Steinberg/ATCA is...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 14, 2014 The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announces that Topher Payne has won its 2014 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright. The award will be presented April 5 at the Humana Theater Festival at Actor’s Theatre of...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 14, 2014 ATCA honors playwright Topher Payne with 2014 Osborn Award The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announces that Topher Payne has won its 2014 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright. The award will be presented April 5 at the...