TheaterWeek was a favorite magazine among theater artists and theater lovers. It covered Broadway, off-Broadway, regional, and educational theater with articles theat included profiles of actors, directors, designers and behind the scenes looks at particular shows. John Harris edited the magazine during its heyday, and such columnists as Peter Filichia

Peter Filichia

Peter Filichia is a New York-based theater critic for The Newark Star Ledger newspaper in New Jersey and New Jersey's television station News 12.In addition, Filichia has two weekly columns at Masterworks Broadway and Kritzerland...

, Alexis Greene, Ken Mandelbaum

Ken Mandelbaum

Ken Mandelbaum is an American columnist, critic, and author whose primary field of expertise is musical theatre.Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Mandelbaum was introduced to Broadway musical theatre by his parents and grandparents at an early age...

, Charles Marowitz

Charles Marowitz

Charles Marowitz is an American critic, theatre director, and playwright who has been a regular columnist on Swans Commentary—a cultural-political bi-weekly—since 2004...

, Davi Napoleon

Davi Napoleon

Davi Napoleon, aka Davida Skurnick is an American theater historian and critic. She is a theater columnist for The Faster Times, an online newspaper, and a regular contributor to Live Design, a monthly magazine about entertainment design and designers...

and Michael Riedel were featured.

The magazine was said to falter from financial mismanagement when after more than 20 years of publishing, it folded.

WorldCat refers to TheaterWeek as follows and maintains a list of libraries where this publication is on file:

Type: Journal, magazine : Periodical; English
Publisher: NYC, i.e. New York, NY : That New Magazine, Inc., 1987-1996.
ISSN: 0896-1956
OCLC: 16987637

Other magazines, such as InTheater, and contemporary internet publications, such as TheaterMania.com and Broadway.com, were influenced by TheaterWeek and used some of the same writers.

External links

• http://www.gnhealth.com/Documents/Continuum/IronPeter.htm Article about publisher Charles Ortleb.
• http://members.tripod.com/~tombeckett/twarticle.html TheaterWeek article by Michael Buckley reprinted here.
• http://www.amazing-journey.com/tw493.htm TheaterWeek article by Michael Goldstein reprinted here.
• http://www.playbill.com/news/article/80764.html Obituary for the founder of TheaterWeek
• http://www.bettybuckley.com/biography/stage/sunset/sunset_theaterweek_950807.html Article by Ken Mandelbaum for TheaterWeek reprinted here.
• http://www.irondale.org/press/articles/week.htm Article by Michael Kantor from TheaterWeek
• http://thefastertimes.com/theatertalk/ Davi Napoleon's column for Theater Talk, which is modeled on her TW column.