Theatre Topics is an academic journal

Academic journal

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 established in 1991. It is an official publication of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. The journal covers theater arts, with a focus on performance studies, dramaturgy

Dramaturgy

Dramaturgy is the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. Dramaturgy is a distinct practice separate from play writing and directing, although a single individual may perform any combination of the three. Some dramatists combine writing and...

, and theater pedagogy

Pedagogy

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. It is intended to inform readers of notable trends on-stage and in performing arts

Performing arts

The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...

 education. The editor in chief

Editor in chief

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 is Catherine A. Schuler (University of Maryland

University of Maryland, College Park

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).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Arts and Humanities Citation Index

Arts and Humanities Citation Index

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, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Bibliography of Asian Studies, Current Contents

Current Contents

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/Arts & Humanities, Dietrich's Index Philosophicus, Humanities Index, Humanities International Index, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature

International Bibliography of Periodical Literature

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, and MLA International Bibliography

Modern Language Association

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.

External links

• Theatre Topics at Project MUSE
  Project MUSE
  Project MUSE is an online database of current and back issues of peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals. It was founded in 1993 by Todd Kelley and Susan Lewis and is a project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. It had support from the Mellon...
  
  
• Association for Theatre in Higher Education