Save that date! Longtime New York ATCA chairs Sherry Eaker and Ira Bilowit invite all ATCA members to a long-standing tradition, an ATCA Weekend Meeting (aka “mini-meeting”) on Broadway and off. Highlights include an interactive Playwriting Primer for Critics led by playwright Arthur Kopit, a panel of playwrights in the latest...
With two new members, the new excom meets on the afternoon of April 5. In full view (right): Jonathan Abarbanel, Myrna Petlicki, Erin Keane. That night, a brief appearance is made by a sheetcake honoring ATCA’s 40th birthday (born in 1974): (at the left) from left, chair...
Louisville, KY — ATCA members today selected New Orleans as the site for the 2015 national conference, next spring, to be chaired by member Alan Smason. Treanor crowns Abarbanel Abarbanel embarasses Keane The executive committee re-elected Jonathan Abarbanel chair, along with Tim Treanor vice-chair; Barbara Bannon and Kerry...
Perspectives in Criticism talk, the 33rd in a series that began in 1992.By Lauren Gunderson, playwrightFor the ATCA National Conference at the Humana Festival, April 3, 2014 (Some history of the 23 year series.) Hello my name is Lauren and I am a playwright and you are room full...
Opening Remarks, General Membership Meeting, Louisville, KY, 3 April 2014By Jonathan Abarbanel, chair Jonathan Abarbanel, ATCA chair Good-morning, everyone. Welcome to Louisville, Kentucky and the Annual Conference of the American Theatre Critics Association. While this is our 37th annual meeting, in fact our Association marks its 40th anniversary...
Registration now open for ATCA’s 40th anniversary conference! If you’d like to be persuaded to attend, click below. Otherwise, go right to these links:Conference Registration and Galt House (Hotel) — or phone them at 800-626-1814. The bluegrass will be extra-blue, the bourbon will be extra-strong and every play will be exciting (we hope)...
ATCA’s 2014 annual conference runs today through Sunday (April 2-6) at Actors Theatre of Louisville, but ATCA meetings the first two days will quickly yield to the Humana Festival of New American Plays, the premiere such festival in the country. On this, its final weekend,...
Playwright Lauren Gunderson will deliver the 33rd Perspectives in Criticism talk at ATCA’s annual conference at the Humana Festival in Louisville, April 3. This is a departure for the series, inaugurated in 1992, which has never featured a playwright except on a panel in 2011. The prolific Gunderson’s “I and You”...
Registration now open for ATCA’s 40th anniversary conference! If you’d like to be persuaded to attend, read below. Otherwise, go right to these links:Conference Registration and Galt House (Hotel) — or phone them at 800-626-1814 The bluegrass will be extra-blue, the bourbon will be extra-strong and every play will be exciting (we...
Charles Giuliano of the website Berkshire Arts wins the prize for most immediate (starting 7/22) and fullest (eight stories!) coverage of ATCA’s visit to the Contemporary American Theater Festival. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Sharon Eberson published two pieces (plus a TV report by Chris Rawson), and Dick Kerekes and Lesila Sansom have one on...