Awards and Honors

Finalists announced for 2024 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award

NEW YORK — The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) today announced six finalists for the 2024 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, recognizing the playwrights who produced the best scripts that premiered professionally outside of New York City in 2023.  The top award, which carries...

59th Annual Henry Hewes Design Awards lunch held October 23, 2023

The 59th Henry Hewes Design Award Honors were announced September 19, 2023 and celebrated at a luncheon held at the Palm restaurant on West 50th Street in Manhattan, the first in-person awards ceremony since fall 2019. The warm and welcoming awards ceremony, was hosted by...

59th Annual Henry Hewes Design Awards announced, celebration scheduled for October 23, 2023

NEW YORK -- The Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee has announced the 2023 Henry Hewes Design Awards Honorees who will be recognized at the 59th annual ceremony on October 23 in New York. The 2023 Awards recognize artistry on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway stages for the...

2023 Theater Hall of Fame inductees announced

July 7, 2023 — The Theater Hall of Fame announced today the 2023 class of inductees. ATCA members join past Hall of Fame inductees to vote on these annual honors. The 2023 cohort includes actors Mandy Patinkin (announced in 2022 but unable to attend that year's...

Report on 2023 Steinberg/ATCA and Osborn Award ceremony

L-R Georgette Verdin, director of Spay; Madison Fiedler, Osborn winner for Spay; Jim Steinberg, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Trust; Christina Anderson, Steinberg/ATCA winner for the ripple, the wave that carried me home; Malkia Stampley, Goodman Theatre BOLD artistic director; Rebecca Gilman, Steinberg/ATCA citation winner for...

Pasadena Playhouse to receive 2023 Regional Theatre Tony Award

May 23 -- The Tony Awards® Administration Committee has announced that based on the recommendation by the American Theatre Critics Association, Pasadena Playhouse will be the recipient of the 2023 Regional Theatre Tony Award. The honor is accompanied by a grant of $25,000, and will...

Madison Fiedler wins 2023 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award for “Spay”

Madison Fiedler (she/her) (photo by Chase Doggett) COSTA MESA, Calif. – Madison Fiedler has won the American Theatre Critics Association’s (ATCA) 2023 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award for her play Spay. Given by ATCA in memory of critic, director, educator and new play advocate M. Elizabeth “Betty” Osborn...

Christina Anderson wins 2023 Steinberg/ATCA Award for “the ripple, the wave that carried me home”

Christina Anderson (she/her) COSTA MESA, Calif. – Playwright Christina Anderson has won the 2023 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for her play the ripple, the wave that carried me home. The Steinberg/ATCA Award, which carries a $25,000 cash prize, recognizes an outstanding...

Finalists Named for 2023 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award

NEW YORK — The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) today announced six finalists for the 2023 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, recognizing the playwrights who produced the best scripts that premiered professionally outside of New York City in 2022. The top award, which carries...

New Yorker critic Vinson Cunningham wins 2021-22 Nathan Award

Vinson Cunningham New Yorker magazine theater critic Vinson Cunningham has been named winner of the 2021-22 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. According to the February 6, 2023 press release posted on the website of the Cornell Chronicle, the award committee highlighted the critic's “lucid, lyrical,...