ATCA-Philadelphia almost here
Our Daumier critic is so jazzed (about the Philadelphia conference opening in a few days) that he brings new meaning to the word clapper. ...
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Last chance to register for ATCA/Philly/16
Jam-packed schedule;lots of friends;great city;plays galore;much to learn (deductible!).Click here now. ...
Registration now open for Philadelphia conference, April 6-10
(Note ATCA’s Daumier critic as the clapper of the Liberty Bell — painful, perhaps, but a pretty good metaphor for criticism!) It took a while to get the bells and whistles aligned (tuned?), but you can now get aboard the Philly express. Why wait? Click here! to see...
ATCA meets today in NYC
Today (Thursday) the excom meets, and tomorrow the rest, with a full day of panels and discussions. (Schedule here; doubtless there have been changes.) The Sardi’s with the Stars luncheon follows on Saturday and there’s many a play to see… . If one of us...
You can still register for NYC conference, Nov. 13-15
Use this link or the one in the right-hand column....
“Major frolicking”–Ben Franklin
Or something like that (Ben knew how to have a good time). He was doubtless thinking of ATCA’s 2016 annual conference, slated for Philadelphia, April 6-10, 2016. The host hotel is the Marriott Courtyard on Juniper Street, across from City Hall, at $149 a night. Five...
Hedy Weiss, Perspectives in criticism, 2015
An often controversial critic in her fiefdom of Chicago, Weiss stimulated the ATCA audience at the New Orleans conference in 2015. Hear a recording here....
ATCA/New Orleans, March 25-29, 2015
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? 75 ATCA members and guests do: Alan Smason sums up the conference and issues thanks. Thank you all for a wonderful time in the Big Easy. As Conference Chair for our first-ever New Orleans Conference, I can attest that...
ATCA freshens its excom, chooses San Francisco for 2017
NEW ORLEANS - Brad Hathaway (San Francisco Bay area), Martha Steketee (NYC) and Ed Rubin (NYC) were today elected to three-year terms on the ATCA executive committee, and Charles Giuliano to a one-year term. Rubin and Hathaway have been on the excom before; Seketee and Giuliano are newcomers. Welcome aboard! Giuliano, Hathaway, Steketee, Rubin Coincidentally,...
ATCA honors past leadership
Alan wears the conference hat with pride. Doubtless it won’t seem out of the ordinary in New Orleans NEW ORLEANS - Barry Gaines completed two terms on the executive committee (he continues as ATCA administrator) and was honored with a bust of the supposed author of the plays by the...