Members may view the fourth featured ATCA/NY video here (login required): “Qu’est-ce que c’est Cabaret?” — Top cabaret artists discuss what exactly makes this art form so special. Panelists are Klea Blackhurst (most recently, Hazel, at Chicago’s the Drury Lane), Jeff Harnar, Laurie Krauz, and Kim David Smith. Moderator: Gerry Geddes, director/writer. ...
Members may view the third featured ATCA/NY video here (login required): During ATCA’s conference in New York in October, Matt Windman, author of The Critics Say … 57 Theater Reviewers in New York and Beyond Discuss Their Craft and Its Future, moderated a discussion between panelists Peter Filichia, Elysa Gardner, Jeremy...
Members may view the second featured ATCA/NY video here (login required): See projection designers Wendall Harrington (“All the Way,” Head of Projection Design, Yale School of Drama) and Peter Nigrini (“Dear Evan Hansen”) and sound designers Jill BC Du Boff (“Hand to God”) and John Gromada (“The Elephant Man”) discuss their crafts during ATCA’s conference in...
WHAT A SWELL PARTY IT WAS! Last weekend’s ATCA/NY conference (Oct. 28-30) was chock-full of enlightening, lively panel discussions, a tour of The Players, and other special events. (Scroll down our home page to find the dauntingly full schedule.) Listening to the Q Brothers at the Sardi’s Luncheon...
ATCA New York Conference, Oct. 28-30, 2016 Conference Chair Sherry Eaker invites all ATCA members who have paid their 2016-2017 dues to our annual New York weekend meeting. Take advantage of our Early Bird discount good through Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016 at 11 pm EDT. Attractions include the traditional Celebrity...
For more substantive stuff, ATCA members should watch their email. Here, we hope to post some links. But in the meantime, below are Alan Smason (chair of last year’s conference in N’Orleans), Bill Hirschman (just reelected excom chair), and Howie Shapiro, sporting the peripatetic Conference Hat, which he has to...
It was a two-play day (The Octoroon at the Wilma and Sex with Strangers at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, for most), following a busy membership meeting in the morning. There, the following new excom members were elected: to regular three-year terms, Bill Hirschman, Plantation, FL; Susan Cohn, San Mateo, CA; and Kerry Reid,...
Three conference chairs: Robert Sokol (next year, San Francisco), Alan Smason (last year, New Orleans) and Howie Shapiro (this year, right now, Philadelphia). And most of this year’s conference, on Friday at the (well, just where were we Friday? … it’s a bit of a buzz)....
The day began with a productive membership meeting in which, among much else, we broadened the criteria for memberhip to admit those writing about theater without necessarily doing traditional reviews. Barbara Bannon presented the 2015 Primus Prize (check, plaque, letter from Barry Primus) to Sharyn Rothstein, who made...
Charles McMahon, Lantern Theater Membership meeting in the morning, then on to the Kimmel Center and artistic director Jay Wahl (curator, Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts). In the afternoon, at the Lantern Theater, where we were welcomed by artistic director Charles McMahon on the set of As You Like It. Diep Tran The...