Theatre Journal
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Discipline | Performing arts |
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Language | English |
Edited by | E.J. Westlake |
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Former name(s) | Educational Theatre Journal |
History | 1949-present |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (United States) |
Frequency | Quarterly |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Theatre J. |
Indexing | |
ISSN | 0192-2882 (print) 1086-332X (web) |
LCCN | 79643622 |
OCLC no. | 33895455 |
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The Theatre Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the theatre arts,[1] with articles from the October and December issues centering on a predetermined theme. It is an official publication of The Association for Theatre in Higher Education[2] and is published on their behalf by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
History[]
The journal was established in 1949 as the Educational Theatre Journal and obtained its current name in 1979.[3] The American Educational Theatre Association intended the journal to serve the field of educational theatre and drama in a manner similar to how the Quarterly Journal of Speech and Publications of the Modern Language Association of America served the fields of speech and modern languages respectively.[4] The founding Editor-in-Chief was (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign). Other past editors include Oscar Brockett, , Sue-Ellen Case, , , , , David McDonald, Susan Bennett, , , , , , , and . [5]
Abstracting and indexing[]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- Academic OneFile
- Academic Search Premier
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
- InfoTrac
- International Index to the Performing Arts
- ProQuest databases
- VINITI Database RAS
- Scopus
References[]
- ^ "Publication Information". Theatre Journal. 66 (4): ii. December 2014.
- ^ "Theatre Journal". Johns Hopkins University Press.
- ^ "Front Matter". Theatre Journal. 31 (1): 1. March 1979.
- ^ Hewitt, Barnard (October 1949). "Editor's Foreword". Educational Theatre Journal. 1 (1): 1.
- ^ "Theatre Journal: Journal Information". Project Muse.
External links[]
- Theatre magazines
- Arts journals
- Quarterly journals
- Johns Hopkins University Press academic journals
- Publications established in 1949
- English-language journals
- Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies