''Contemporary Theatre Review'' is a quarterly

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published by

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and covering all aspects of

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

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opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...

dance Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

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, activist and applied performance, theatre design, and connections between time-based arts and

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. The journal was established in 1992 and the

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are Maria M. Delgado (

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), Maggie B. Gale (

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), and Dominic Johnson (

). The journal frequently publishes special issues. Recent examples include guest-edited special issues on

Tim Crouch Tim Crouch (born 18 March 1964) is a British experimental theatre maker, actor, writer and director. His plays include ''My Arm'', ''An Oak Tree'', ''ENGLAND'', and ''The Author''. These take various forms, but all reject theatrical conventions ...

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, race and race-blind casting, performance and activism, performance and the electoral process, editing, the London 2012

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, live art in the UK, and site-specificity. As well as research articles, the journal publishes book reviews, and makes space for production notes, designs, manifestos, and interviews by emergent and established theatre-makers, which are collected in a "Documents" section. Meanwhile, the journal's "Backpages" section presents a more expansive view of theatre and performance. The journal's website offers "Interventions", responding to current developments in the field and extending discussions from the print journal through a variety of writing formats and multimedia.

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/Arts & Humanities, and the

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