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(Critical) Power to the People

by Simone Scully

in Critics & Reviews,New Generations,New Models

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(Photo: Laura Roudabush) iCritic™, an initiative, developed as part of ‘Barrington Stage 2.0’, got its genesis from TCG’s New Generations Program, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2010. Now over a year later, it is time find out how iCritic is progressing. Laura Roudabush, Director of Marketing for Barrington [...]

Reasons to be Critical

by Diep Tran

in American Theatre magazine,Critics & Reviews

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For a full ill-advised minute (actually, more like ten months), I had considered being a theatre critic. And then, I realize two things: I really disliked reading my own opinions and criticism was a hard and mostly thankless job. When you give a theatre artist a good review, they admire you and your writing and [...]

Condition:Critical

by Rob Weinert-Kendt November 11, 2010 Critics & Reviews
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I was recently invited to speak on the panel “Condition: Critical,” Monday, Oct. 25 at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Present at this wide-ranging discussion among my colleagues and myself was avid theatergoer Martha Wade Steketee, who wrote a version of this post on her blog. We’re reprinting it here [...]

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Stars Align with Stage Work

by Rob Weinert-Kendt June 30, 2010 Critics & Reviews
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There’s been a lot of talk since the Tony Awards broadcast, with its Glee production numbers, its Green Day performance, and its high celebrity quotient, that Broadway stages have been invaded by interlopers. Actor Hunter Foster has even started a Facebook group, “Give the Tonys Back to Broadway,” which has garnered nearly 9,000 members fired [...]

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This Was the Conference That Was

by Rob Weinert-Kendt June 24, 2010 Critics & Reviews
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TCG’s National Conference in Chicago last week was a record-breaker, with upwards of 900 attendees crowding more than 50 breakout sessions, 17 affinity groups, four plenaries and 16 “manifestos.” One of America’s most vibrant theatre cities proved an ideal host, not only for its theatre-friendliness—epitomized by Mayor Daley’s Saturday morning speech on the value of [...]

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American Theatre’s Randy Gener Awarded the ‘Rube’

by TCG News June 10, 2010 American Theatre magazine
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[Photo by Rick Maiman] The Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), honored the best of the best in New York area journalism June 7 at the Annual Dinner of the Deadline Club Awards, one of New York City’s most prestigious journalism awards, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. American [...]

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