Contemporary Theatre Review

Contemporary Theatre Review is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre and performance studies. The journal is home to the most rigorous, experimental, and influential scholarly interventions into the study of international theatre and related practices. Publishing the best research on a broad spectrum of performance practices – including mainstream theatre, drama, performance histories; live art and performance art; dance theatre; digital performance; sound; and performative social and applied practices – Contemporary Theatre Review supports and encourages a wide range of methodologies and approaches, especially interdisciplinary inflections. Each issue includes scholarly articles, critical documents (including interviews and forum discussions), book reviews, and ‘backpages’, with an emphasis on the analysis of new, under-represented or otherwise marginalised examples of performance, grounded in their historical, social, cultural and political conditions of production.

Contemporary Theatre Review’s website at www.contemporarytheatrereview.org
offers online ‘Interventions’, original articles that respond to current developments in the
field and extend discussions from the print journal through a variety of writing formats and
multimedia content.

‘I have just read Contemporary Theatre Review from cover to cover. Sound scholarship, vigorous thinking, political impact with a renewed sense of the part theatre might play in the contemporary – all wrapped up in a volume light enough to hold in the studio and weighty enough to be talking about some time after the work is over. A welcome challenge to theatre-lite.’
Alan Read – Professor of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Kings College, London

‘ Contemporary Theatre Review is unique among scholarly theatre journals in its deft combination of primary and secondary sources on current and recent theatre practice. That is, its scrupulously-edited, peer-reviewed critical essays are juxtaposed with articles and interviews providing first-hand documentation of work by major contemporary practitioners of theatre and performance. These materials are reflected on further by the forum-like debates often conducted in the “Backpages” section of the journal (which, I confess, I often turn to first). But the most important thing of all about CTR is its insistently internationalist outlook: though rightly centred in its own, UK context, the journal's ongoing attention to non-Anglophone theatre practice, in continental Europe and beyond, provides a vital antidote to the Anglo-American bias of so much work in contemporary theatre and performance studies.’
Stephen Bottoms – Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance , University of Manchester, UK

‘ Contemporary Theatre Review is an invaluable resource for theatre artists and scholars. The journal’s editorial and advisory board has remarkable depth. The breadth of their explorations, from the systems breeding radical new ideas in the German theatre, to the collaboration between Vienna’s Projekt Theater with Mabou Mines, to the spate of recent plays about sex tourism in the Caribbean, to an exploration of where theatre is heading beyond postmodernism with a critical eye on whether critical analysis has kept pace, to an exploration of the cultural theory as embodied in the freak show, to a fresh look at what might be worthy in the Broadway musical, these are all evidence of a group of visionary thinkers taking delight in imagining a theatre that moves the whole culture forward.’
Matthew Maguire – Director, Theatre Program, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, Co-Artistic Director, Creation Production Company

‘ Contemporary Theatre Review has now become the ‘must-read’ theatre journal. With one of the sharpest teams of editors and advisors in the world, it is publishing some of the most insightful and internationally important contributions to theatre research and scholarship. It is a journal that has truly come of age – attracting the leading writers, engaging with the most current and pressing debates, and embracing a wonderful diversity, from its rich variety of writing formats (articles, documents, forum pieces, interviews and reviews) to the extensive range of theatre and performance practices it examines.’
Professor Steve Dixon – Pro-Vice Chancellor (Development), Brunel University

Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.