2025: excavation review
Calendar year 2025 productions, events, exhibitions at which I counted, built collaborations, and supported theater and its creatives.
Women Count VIII: Fifteen-Year View of Female and Non-Binary Hires Off-Broadway
[Selection from July 2025 report, published July 30, 2025 on the Women Count report series page.] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: WOMEN COUNT VIII The Women Count project collects, analyzes, and reports New York City production […]
event preview | Tony Awards preview and cabaret concert at The Coffee House Club
A Coffee House Tony Awards Preview at the Coffee House Club at the Salmagundi ClubA Coffee House Tony Awards preview with Mark Rifkin, Simon Jones, David Barbour, and Martha Wade […]
2025 Drama Desk Award event and winners
June 1, 2025 — Winners for the 2025 Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this evening at the Jack H. Skirball Center For The Performing Arts (NYU Skirball at 556 LaGuardia […]
2025 Drama Desk nominations announced
April 30, 2025 — Nominations for the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today on Spectrum News NY1 by Norm Lewis and Spectrum News NY1 hosts. In keeping with the […]
2024: excavation review
Productions and events at which I counted, built collaborations, and supported theater and its creatives.
Women Count VII: Women and Non-Binary Hires Off-Broadway 2018/19, 2019/20, 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24
[Selection from June 2024 report, published June 11, 2024 on the Women Count report series page.] I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: WOMEN COUNT VII The Women Count project collects and publishes analyses of New York […]
2023: excavation review
2023 on-line and in-person theater and events on which I collaborated, attended, counted, worked on coalition building to support theater and its creatives.
Women Count VI on Hiring Trends Off Broadway Released in May 2022
[as posted in the Counting Together initiative website “spotlight” section January 27, 2023.] The Women Count report series, authored by Martha Wade Steketee with Judith Binus, released its sixth report […]
2022: excavation review
2022 was a continued return to viewing on line and in person theater, collaborating on theater, counting theater productions, and coalition-building on behalf of theater. The exhaustive (and exhausting) list […]
Perspectives in Criticism from Helen Shaw, our monster in the audience
[Interview by Martha Wade Steketee at the 2022 ATCA New York City conference on November 11, 2022. Originally published published on the ATCA website December 30, 2022.] New York, December […]
58th Annual Henry Hewes Design Awards streamed October 24, 2022
The 58th Henry Hewes Design Award Honors were announced September 28, 2022 and celebrated during a live-streamed awards ceremony October 24, 2022, hosted by committee chair and ATCA member Jeffrey […]
Dan Sullivan | ATCA emeritus and founding member, mentor, teacher
Dan Sullivan, gentle mentor, director of the O’Neill Center National Critics Institute for many years, and co-founder of the American Theatre Critics Association, passed away Tuesday of natural causes at […]
ATCANY2022 | Registration is open and New York City awaits
Registration is open for members and their guests for ATCANY2022 Reseated and In Person, ATCA’s first annual conference to be hosted in New York City since we began meeting at the O’Neill Center starting […]
ATCANY2022 | New York annual meeting sites and programs being finalized
After many months of planning, ATCA will gather in New York City Friday November 11 — Sunday November 13, with a full weekend of programming and events that include access to […]
ATCANY2022 | ATCA “Reseated and In Person” to be historic New York annual meeting
ATCA will hold its annual meeting Reseated and In Person in New York City November 11-13, 2022. This will be the first time that ATCA members have convened in the same physical space […]
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