''TDR: The Drama Review'' is an

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...

focusing on performances in their social, economic, aesthetic, and political contexts.Princeton.edu
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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 repertoire ...

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 perfor ...

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...

performance art Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

, visual art, popular entertainment,

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rituals A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or objects, performed according to a set sequence. Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a religious community. Rituals are characterized, b ...

, and performance in politics and everyday life. ''TDR: The Drama Review'' was founded in 1955 by Robert W. Corrigan 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 Cowlin ...

). Corrigan took ''TDR'' with him to

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in 1957 where he renamed it the ''Tulane Drama Review''. In 1962, Corrigan left Tulane for

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and

Richard Schechner Richard Schechner is University Professor Emeritus at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and editor of ''TDR: The Drama Review''. Biography Richard Schechner received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1956, a ...

became editor. Schechner left Tulane for

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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 Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...

), 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 Shanghai Theatre Academy () is a public university in Shanghai, People's Republic of China dedicated to dramatic art education. Its predecessor was Shanghai Municipal Experimental Theatre School cofounded by the famous educator Gu Yuxiu ( 顾� ...

), and Branislav Jakovljevic (

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). From 2011 until 2017, Jill Dolan and Stacy Wolf (

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) 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 revie ...

, 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

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*{{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