''TDR: The Drama Review'' is an
academic journal focusing on performances in their social, economic, aesthetic, and political contexts.
[Princeton.edu]
/ref> The journal covers 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 ...
, theatre, music, performance art, visual art, popular entertainment, media, sports, rituals, and performance in politics and everyday life.
''TDR: The Drama Review'' was founded in 1955 by Robert W. Corrigan
Robert Willoughby Corrigan (23 September 1927 – 1 September 1993) was an American academic and the founding editor of the ''Carleton Drama Review'', which later became '' TDR: The Drama Review''.
Robert Willoughby Corrigan was born in Portage, W ...
as the "Carleton Drama Review" (so named because Corrigan was a faculty member at Carleton College
Carleton College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, it had 2,105 undergraduate students and 269 faculty members in fall 2016. The 200-acre main campus is between Northfield and the 800-acre Cowling ...
). Corrigan took ''TDR'' with him to Tulane University in 1957 where he renamed it the ''Tulane Drama Review''. In 1962, Corrigan left Tulane for Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...
and Richard Schechner became editor.[ Schechner left Tulane for New York University in 1967 taking ''TDR'' with him and renaming it ''TDR: The Drama Review''. Erika Munk succeeded Schechner as editor in 1969. Michael Kirby became editor in 1970. In 1986, Kirby resigned and Schechner resumed ''TDRs editorship. Schechner continues as editor as of 2021. ''TDR'' is owned by New York University and is published in hard copy and online by Cambridge University Press.
From 2011 onwards, ''TDR''s point of view was expanded by means of a consortium of editors: Tavia Nyong'o, Kimberly Jannarone, and Elise Morrison ( Yale University), Rebecca Schneider (]Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
), William (Huizhu) Sun ( Shanghai Theatre Academy), and Branislav Jakovljevic (Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
). From 2011 until 2017, Jill Dolan and Stacy Wolf ( Princeton University) was a member of the TDR Consortium. Within the Consortium, Schechner continues as editor-in-chief, Mariellen Sandford, continue as associate editor, and Sara Brady as managing editor. One issue a year is edited by a Consortium editor or editors.
''TDR'' is not peer-reviewed
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...
, a fact that has been somewhat controversial. However, submissions to ''TDR'' are often sent by Schechner for evaluation to one or more of ''TDR''s Contributing Editors, an international group of distinguished scholars and artists. In his article "''TDR'' and Me," Schechner called the objectivity that is associated with the process of peer review "a chimera". Expanding on this, he explained: "The opinion of a group remains subjective. In the humanities, too often peer review leads to the publication of articles that support whatever notions are popular/stylish at the time".[TDR: The Drama Review, Volume 50, Number 1 (T 189), Spring 2006, pp. 6-12.]
As of 2021, ''TDR'' is published b
Cambridge University Press
References
External links
*{{official website, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-drama-review
Cambridge University academic journals
Student magazines published in the United Kingdom
Cambridge University Press academic journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Publications established in 1955
1955 establishments in Minnesota