Naveen Kumar New York, December 31 — The ATCA Perspectives in Criticism series added its newest chapter on November 10, 2023, the first day of the ATCA New York City conference "Holding the Curtain". The 2023 speaker Naveen Kumar is a journalist and culture critic who...
Helen Shaw New York, December 30 — The ATCA Perspectives in Criticism series that extends back to 1992 booked its latest session last month, November 11, 2022, the first day of the ATCA New York City conference "Reseated and In-Person". The 2022 speaker Helen Shaw joined...
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....
Hedy Weiss, live and feisty NEW ORLEANS - Often-controversial Chicago Sun-Times critic Hedy Weiss delivered this year’s Perspectives in Criticism lecture, the latest noted speaker in a series going back to 1992 (see the distinguished roster). Lo and behold, she turned out to be a 24x7 workaholic, passionate...
It is with great pleasure that I announce that our 2015 “Perspectives in Criticism” keynote speaker will be my Chicago colleague, Hedy Weiss, one of the nation’s senior theatre critics and certainly one of the most feisty. Hedy has been covering theatre, dance and the arts...
Click here for Gunderson’s talk (Humana Festival, 2014), the 33rd in a series that began in 1992....
Louisville, KY — For the first time, a playwright was invited to give the Perspectives in Criticism talk that has been a feature of 33 ATCA gatherings since 1992. A few snippets of her lively remarks, engagingly delivered, which will continue to stimulate discussion throughout...
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...
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”...
Click here for Jason’s full speech, the 32nd in a series that began in 1992. ...