Awards and Honors

ATCA names six finalists for $40,000 Steinberg/ATCA Awards

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 2015. The top award of $25,000 and two citations of $7,500 each, plus commemorative plaques,...

Call for submissions for 2016 Francesca Primus Prize

Deadline April 30. ATCA invites submissions for the 2016 Francesca Primus Prize, an annual $10,000 award honoring outstanding contributions to the American theater by an emerging female playwright (one who has not achieved national prominence). The prize is made possible through the generosity of the Francesca Ronnie...

Playwright Sharyn Rothstein wins 2015 Primus Prize

Sharyn Rothstein has won the 2015 Francesca Primus Prize for an emerging woman playwright for her By the Water, which premiered at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Stage II in Nov., 2014. ATCA adjudicates the award. Primus committee chair Barbara Bannon of Salt Lake City explained that the 2015 announcement came late...

ATCA Names Six Finalists for the 2015 Francesca Primus Prize

November 30, 2015 — The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has announced the six finalists for the 2015 Francesca Primus Prize. Jointly sponsored by ATCA and the Francesca Ronnie Primus Foundation, the Primus Prize of $10,000 is given annually to an emerging woman playwright. The six...

Bebe Neuwirth, presenting Ann Reinking to the Theater Hall of Fame, Nov. 18, 2019

Thank you, Theater Hall of Fame, for making the brilliant decision to induct Ms. Ann Reinking. It is my great honor and joy to say a few words about my dear and treasured friend — one of the most deeply intelligent, kind, and sensitive people...

John Doyle presenting Andre De Shields to the Theater Hall of Fame, Nov. 18, 2019

A couple of years ago I was casting a production of “As You Like It,” which was to play at Bay Street and then at Classic Stage. It was to be with a company which already included Ellen Burstyn, Cas Morgan and Quincy Tyler Bernstine....

2015 Theater Hall of Fame induction

ATCA voted … and a few months later, a lovely time was had by all. Read an account of the Nov. 16 induction ceremony by clicking here. ...

Snapshots from NY

(Go to our FB page for pictures of some panels.) Three new ATCAns: Kathryn Kitt (Bedford, NY), Kitty Drexel (Somerville, Mass.), Naomi Orwin (Philadelphia)Five old ATCAns: Bill Gale (Providence), Jonathan Abarbanel (Chicago), Claudia Harris (Orem, Utah), Anne Siegel (Greenfield, Wisc.), Chris Rawson (Pittsburgh)ATCAns greeted by Sheery...

Nine named to 2015 class of Theatre Hall of Fame

The 2015 class of the Theatre Hall of Fame, chosen by ATCA members and current members of the Hall, includes composer-lyricist team Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, lighting designer Ken Billington, publicist Merle Debuskey, director Robert Falls, actor Stacy Keach, playwright Tony Kushner, director-designer Julie Taymor and the late actor-director Roger Rees. Their induction will be...

Just weeks to ATCA in NYC

FEATURINGPanelists: Sheryl Kaller, Arthur Kopit, David Lindsay-Abaire, Lisa McNulty, Marsha Norman, Susan H. Schulman, Caridad Svich, Doug Wright, and our Sardi’s luncheon celebrities. WHATChairs Sherry Eaker and Ira Bilowit invite all ATCA members to a longstanding tradition, the NYC Fall weekend conference. WHENFriday, Nov. 13 through Sunday,...