Charles Edward Whaley Charles Edward Whaley, long-term ATCA member, died Oct. 30, 2025 at the age of 97. Whaley was a journalist who covered education and the arts in the course of a seven-decade career. He was born on February 29, 1928 in Williamstown, in Grant County,...
Jay Handelman As shared with ATCA members in the August 13, 2025 THE UPDATE newsletter, colleague Jay Handelman has decided to shift his professional homebase from his long-term home at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune for an outlet he is developing. He has no plans to leave his...
Edward "Fast Eddy" Rubin EDWARD RUBIN, an iconoclastic theater critic, arts critic and curator, who wrote for decades about theater and the visual arts, died after a protracted battle with bladder cancer at Calvary Hospital on June 15, 2025. He was 84. Rubin, who went by the...
Brittani Samuel Brittani Samuel, a freelance theater critic who writes for The New York Times, The Washington Post and Broadway News, and was the 2022 inaugural winner of ATCA's Edward Medina Prize for Excellence in Cultural Criticism, has been named winner of the 2023-24 George Jean...
Misha Berson On Thursday, February 13, longtime ATCA member Misha Berson passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. Misha was an active member of our organization, most recently co-chairing with Cameron Kelsall the New Play committee that conveys the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award and Osborn Award. She was...
Christine Dolen Christine Dolen, a former leader of the American Theatre Critics Association and a major force in evolving local theater itself, died Saturday in her home in Davie, Florida at the age of 74. The world of South Florida theater -- from its presentations to its...
Christine Dolen You can get a good understanding of Christine Dolen’s place in the South Florida theater community from the outpouring of hundreds of testimonials posted on social media in the hours after her death was announced on Sunday. She died on Feb. 1 at age...
Bill Gale Bill Gale, the longtime critic for the Providence Journal, gave a lot to the American Theatre Critics Association during his decades of active involvement, including three years as chair of the executive committee (1984-87). Friends recalled that he was somewhat nervous about being the...
Sandi Durell (1940-2024) TheaterPizzazz founder and publisher Sandi Durell has died at 84, as reported by Playbill.com. News of her death due to metasticized lung cancer was confirmed by her family. Ms. Durell was a critic for more than 30 years, member or board member of many...
[L-R) Kelundra Smith and Jerald Raymond Pierce. American Theatre magazine announced several Theatre Communications Group (TCG) staff promotions on September 10, 2024. The full article can be found here. ATCA member Kelundra Smith was named director of publishing for TCG Books and American Theatre magazine., to organize...