Each year ATCA holds multiple convenings ranging from 2-3 days to 5-6 days, with ATCA members playing lead roles in planning and organization. (In addition, there’s a tradition of occasional Critics’ Seminars.)
ATCA meetings in the early years (1974-77) were held at the O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. The annual conferences in subsequent years have been held around the country.
One convening each year serves as the annual conference, by tradition held in a national theater center other than New York, allowing ATCA members over time to become familiar with American theater communities around the country. (The 2022 annual conference in New York for the first time celebrates the first opportunity for ATCA members to convene in person since November 2019.) All annual conference locations listed below.