The following journals are key resources for theatre research. Each link will take you to OneSearch, where you can explore articles, reviews, and scholarship published in that journal. These titles provide critical perspectives, performance analysis, historical studies, and current debates in the field of theatre.
- Asian Theatre Journal - Asian Theatre Journal is dedicated to the performing arts of Asia, focusing on 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.
- American Theatre - A consumer magazine featuring reports on plays in print, as well as performances and theater season schedules. Presents current trends in nonprofit American theater. Contains three to four articles in each issue; sometimes the complete text of a short play is included.
- Latin American Theatre Review - The Latin American Theatre Review (LATR) is published twice per year by The University of Kansas' Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Center of Latin American Studies. Founded in 1967, LATR covers all aspects of Latina/o and Latin American theatre and performance and is one of the premiere scholarly journals in its field.
- New Theatre Quarterly - 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, debate and expansion of vision and theatre practice in all its forms within the field of theatre and performance studies, and interdisciplinary and cross‐cultural research with a theatre/performance focus.
- Studies in Theatre and Performance - Publishes international research on theatre and performance practice, including scenography, choreography, playwriting, dramaturgy and live art.
- Theatre Journal - Theatre Journal's broad array of scholarly articles and reviews has earned it an international reputation as one of the most authoritative and useful publications of theatre studies available today. Drawing contributions from noted practitioners and scholars, Theatre Journal features social and historical studies, production reviews, and theoretical inquiries that analyze dramatic texts and production.
- Theatre Survey - Theatre Survey is chartered by the American Society for Theatre Research as a theatre history journal. Its theatrical and historical orientations are broadly conceived. Performance-centered and historiographic studies from all points across the historical, cultural, and methodological spectra are welcome.
