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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

event preview | Tony Awards preview and cabaret concert at The Coffee House Club by Martha Wade Steketee

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 […]

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Tuesday, June 3, 2025

A “Good Night” for TV: Clooney and company bring Murrow play to CNN by Martha Wade Steketee

[Full article published in Quill Magazine June 3, 2025.] On June 7, CNN will be broadcasting, live from Broadway, “Good Night, and Good Luck,” a play written by and starring […]

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Sunday, June 1, 2025

2025 Drama Desk Award event and winners by Martha Wade Steketee

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 […]

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

2025 Drama Desk nominations announced by Martha Wade Steketee

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 […]

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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Churchill combines future terrors and present horrors with generous human instincts by Martha Wade Steketee

Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.Featuring Japhet Balaban, Ruby Blaut, Kyle Cameron, Orlagh Cassidy, John Ellison Conlee, Adelind Horan, Maddox Morfit-Tighe, Deirdre O’Connell, Cecilia A…

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Monday, April 14, 2025

Classroom scene study and deep power revelations by Martha Wade Steketee

John Proctor Is the VillainFeaturing Nihar Duvvuri, Gabriel Ebert, Molly Griggs, Maggie Kuntz, Hagan Oliveras, Morgan Scott, Sadie Sink, Fina Strazza, and Amalia YooBooth TheatreMarch 20, 2…

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Building a life and coming to personal truth in memoir-based drama by Martha Wade Steketee

Becoming EveFeaturing Tommy Dorfman, Judy Kuhn, Tedra Millan, Rad Pereria, Richard Schiff, and Brandon UranowitzNew York Theatre Workshop | Abrons Arts CenterMarch 20, 2025 – April 27, 20…

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Secrets, lies, social legacies, and family survival by Martha Wade Steketee

PurposeFeaturing Alana Arenas, Glenn Davis, Jon Michael Hill, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Harry Lennix, and Kara YoungHelen Hayes TheaterFebruary 25, 2025 – July 6, 2025production site Pu…

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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Women find community at the social battle lines of 1970s America by Martha Wade Steketee

LiberationFeaturing Betsy Aidem, Audrey Corsa, Kayla Davion, Susanna Flood, Kristolyn Lloyd, Irene Sofia Lucio, Charlie Thurston, and Adina VersonLaura Pels TheatreJanuary 3, 2025 – March…

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Saturday, January 25, 2025

Language lessons as aspiration, identity, and community by Martha Wade Steketee

EnglishFeaturing Tala Ashe, Ava Lalezarzadeh, Pooya Mohseni, Marjan Neshat, and Hadi TabbalTodd Haimes TheatreJanuary 3, 2025 – March 2, 2025production site Downtown moves uptown from Atl…

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Sunday, January 5, 2025

2024: excavation review by Martha Wade Steketee

Productions and events at which I counted, built collaborations, and supported theater and its creatives.

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Thursday, November 14, 2024

Gentle revelations in song in a robot-assisted future by Martha Wade Steketee

Maybe Happy EndingFeaturing Darren Criss, Helen J Shen, Marcus Choi, and Dez DuronBelasco TheatreOctober 16, 2024 – runningproduction site Our world of dramatic literature, films, and tel…

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Saturday, October 12, 2024

Thornton Wilder’s small town story at a breakneck pace by Martha Wade Steketee

Our TownFeaturing Jim Parsons, Zoey Deutch, Katie Holmes, Billy Eugene Jones, Ephraim Sykes, Richard Thomas, Michelle Wilson, Julie Halston, and Donald Webber, Jr.Ethel Barrymore TheatreSep…

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Thursday, October 10, 2024

Pain, pathos, and humanity served up as gentle gestures in The Counter by Martha Wade Steketee

The CounterFeaturing Anthony Edwards, Susanna Flood, and Amy WarrenRoundabout Theatre Company | Laura PelsSeptember 20, 2024 – November 17, 2024production site Two lonely people meet in a…

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Creeping terror masked as medical interrogation in an airport detention area by Martha Wade Steketee

Blood of the LambFeaturing Meredith Garretson and Kelly McAndrewHarbor Stage Company | 59E59 TheatersSeptember 14, 2024 – October 20, 2024production site We think we know where an abortio…

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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Medea through rap provides surprising revelations by Martha Wade Steketee

Medea Re-VersedFeaturing Siena D’Addario, Melissa Mahoney, Mark Martin, Jacob Ming-Trent, Luis Quintero, Stephen Michael Spencer, and Sarin Monae WestRed Bull Theater and Bedlam | Sheen C…

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Saturday, September 14, 2024

This audience hears voices immersed in an encounter group by Martha Wade Steketee

The Voices in Your HeadFeaturing Christian Caro, Marcia Debonis, Alex Gibson, Tom Mezger, Daphne Overbeck, Jamila Sabares-Klemm, Erin Treadway, and Jehan O. YoungEgg & Spoon Theatre Col…

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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Your table is ready at Table 17 by Martha Wade Steketee

Table 17Featuring Biko Eisen-Martin, Michael Rishawn, and Kara YoungMCC TheaterAugust 14, 2024 – September 29 , 2024 [extended]production site Douglas Lyons has crafted a sneakily layered…

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Tuesday, June 18, 2024

United States history through the lens of the cowboy myth by Martha Wade Steketee

Dark NoonFeaturing Mandla Gaduka, Katlego Kaygee Letsholonyana, Lillian Tshabalala-Malulyck, Bongani Bennedict Masango, Siyambonga Alfred Mdubeki, Joe Young, and Thulani ZwaneSt. Ann’s Wa…

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Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Women Count VII: Women and Non-Binary Hires Off-Broadway 2018/19, 2019/20, 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24 by Martha Wade Steketee

[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 anal…

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Thursday, May 9, 2024

Small acts of puppetry and an intensely lived life revealed by Martha Wade Steketee

Small Acts of Daring Invention Featuring Amanda Glynn Card, Simon Catillon, Takemi Kitamura, Ariel Lauryn, Andrew Murdock, and Tracy WellerMason Holdings Theatre | HERE Sublet SeriesMay 1, …

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Sunday, December 31, 2023

2023: excavation review by Martha Wade Steketee

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.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Letters From Max (a ritual) by Martha Wade Steketee

[full review published in Time Out New York February 27, 2023.] From 2012 through 2016, playwright Sarah Ruhl exchanged letters with her student Max Ritvo, which she published in 2018 […]

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Friday, January 27, 2023

Women Count VI on Hiring Trends Off Broadway Released in May 2022 by Martha Wade Steketee

[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 …

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Saturday, December 31, 2022

2022: excavation review by Martha Wade Steketee

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…

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Friday, December 30, 2022

Perspectives in Criticism from Helen Shaw, our monster in the audience by Martha Wade Steketee

[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 […

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

58th Annual Henry Hewes Design Awards streamed October 24, 2022 by Martha Wade Steketee

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 J…

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Friday, October 7, 2022

Dan Sullivan | ATCA emeritus and founding member, mentor, teacher by Martha Wade Steketee

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 na…

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Thursday, October 6, 2022

ATCANY2022 | Registration is open and New York City awaits by Martha Wade Steketee

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’…

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Thursday, September 15, 2022

ATCANY2022 | New York annual meeting sites and programs being finalized by Martha Wade Steketee

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 […]

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Monday, September 5, 2022

ATCANY2022 | ATCA “Reseated and In Person” to be historic New York annual meeting by Martha Wade Steketee

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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