The links below connect to the Emory Libraries catalog records for each journal. Use the "Connect" button in the catalog records to find Emory's electronic access options. Look for other access to other theater studies journals in eJournals A-Z.
"American Theatre is the national monthly magazine for the American professional not-for-profit theatre, informing readers about important work and significant issues affecting theatre art and practice." - Publisher website
"Asian Theatre Journal is dedicated to the performing arts of Asia, focusing upon both traditional and modern theatrical forms. It aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge throughout the international theatrical community for the mutual benefit of all interested scholars and artists. This engaging, intercultural journal offers descriptive and analytical articles, original plays and play translations, book and audiovisual reviews, and reports of current theatrical activities in Asia. Full-color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate each issue." - Publisher website
the Black Theatre Review (Open Access)
"the Black Theatre Review (tBTR) is a biannual online, peer-reviewed journal published by the Black Theatre Network (BTN). BTN is dedicated to the exploration and preservation of the theatrical visions of the African Diaspora. The goal of tBTR is to explore the scholarship, history, and performance of Black peoples and cultures wherever they are expressed throughout the world." - Publisher website
"Canadian Theatre Review (CTR) is committed to expanding and questioning the intersecting terms in its title, investigating what constitutes ‘Canadian,’ ‘theatre,’ and ‘review.’ [...] Each issue explores a theme and gathers artists, critics, and emerging and established scholars to share their perspectives, offering a snapshot on pressing issues in performance in Canada today. CTR fosters cross-generational, intercultural exchange; community building; and knowledge sharing among artists, scholars, and readers. As a hybrid academic journal and theatre magazine, CTR develops new and diverse voices, provides a supportive editorial process, and broadens participation in conversations about theatre and performance." - Publisher website
"A refereed publication, New England Theatre Journal is concerned with advancing the study and practice of theatre and drama by printing articles of the highest quality on a broad range of subjects, including traditional scholarship, performance theory, pedagogy, and articles on theatre performance, design and technology." - Publisher website
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
"The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism (JDTC) was founded in 1986 at the University of Kansas and publishes full-length articles that contribute to the varied conversations in dramatic theory and criticism, explore the relationship between theory and theatre practice, and/or examine recent scholarship by a single author. The JDTC is published twice each year by the Department of Theatre & Dance with support from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences." - Publisher website
Latin American Theatre Review (LATR)
"Founded in 1967, LATR covers all aspects of Latina/o and Latin American theatre and performance and has grown to be one of the premiere scholarly journals in its field." - Publisher website
"New Theatre Quarterly provides a vital international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. It shows that theatre history has a contemporary relevance, that theatre studies need a methodology and that theatre criticism needs a language. The journal publishes news, analysis and debate within the field of theatre studies." - Publisher website
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
"PAJ explores innovative work in theatre, performance art, dance, video, writing, technology, sound, and music, bringing together all live arts in thoughtful cultural dialogue. Issues include critical essays, artists’ writings, interviews, plays, drawings, and notations, with extended coverage of performance, festivals, and books. Podcasts, video and audio clips appear on PAJ’s online home." - Publisher website
"Shakespeare Quarterly (SQ) is a leading journal in Shakespeare studies, publishing highly original, rigorously researched essays, notes, and book reviews. Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library by Oxford University Press, SQ is peer-reviewed and extremely selective. The essays published in our pages span the field, including scholarship about new media and early modern race, textual and theater history, ecocritical and posthuman approaches, psychoanalytic and other theories, and archival and historicist work." - Publisher website
South African Theatre Journal: SATJ
"South African Theatre Journal provides a leading forum for the academic discussion of issues relating to theatre, performance and the media, notably as these manifest themselves in Southern Africa and further afield on the African continent. The journal features peer-reviewed articles on the history, theory and practice of the performing arts, as well as the methodology of theatre research and performance studies. The journal incorporates theatre reports, book reviews, commentaries, and play texts." - Publisher website
"TDR traces the broad spectrum of performances, studying performances in their aesthetic, social, economic, and political contexts. With an emphasis on experimental, avant-garde, intercultural, and interdisciplinary performance, TDR covers performance art, theatre, dance, music, visual art, popular entertainments, media, sports, rituals, and the performance in and of politics and everyday life." - Publisher website
TD&T (Theater Design & Technology)
"The journal for design, production, and technology professionals in the performing arts and entertainment industry." (Description courtesy of Ohio State University.) - Publisher website
"The journal features scholarly articles that are at the cutting edge of theatre, dance, and performance studies; focusing on historiographical, cultural, and/or theoretical analyses in both national and transnational contexts. Two special issues and two general issues are published each year; all issues include book and performance reviews. The journal also features an online section that includes interviews with artists, think pieces, and other alternative approaches to knowledge production. Theatre Journal is an official publication of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)." - Publisher website