The Theatre Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the theatre arts,
History
The journal was established in 1949 as the
Educational Theatre Journal and obtained its current name in 1979.
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.
The founding
editor-in-chief was Barnard Hewitt (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign). Other past editors include
Oscar Brockett, James S. Moy,
Sue-Ellen Case, Enoch Brater, William B. Worthen, Janelle Reinelt,
Loren Kruger, David McDonald, Susan Bennett, David Román, Harry Elam, Jean Graham-Jones, Penny Farfan, Ric Knowles, Joanne Tompkins, and Jennifer Parker-Starbuck.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
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