Journals of Performance Studies

TDR: The Drama Review
TDR provides scholarship on performances and their social, economic and political contexts. With an emphasis on the experimental, avant-garde, intercultural and interdisciplinary, it covers dance theatre, performance art, popular entertainment, media, sports, rituals and performance in politics and everyday life.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_drama_review/

Text and Performance Quarterly
Text and Performance Quarterly publishes scholarship that explores and advances the study of performance as a social, communicative practice; as a technology of representation and expression; and as a hermeneutic. Articles address performance and the performative from a wide range of perspectives and methodologies, and they investigate all sites of performance from the classical stage to popular culture to the practices of everyday life. TPQ also features a 'Performance in Review' section that provides a scholarly forum to document performances and to situate and critique them within enduring and emergent issues in performance studies praxis.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10462937.asp

PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
PAJ offers extended coverage of the visual arts (such as video, installations, photography, and multimedia performance), in addition to reviews of new works in theatre, dance, film, and opera. Issues include artists' writings, essays, interviews and dialogues, historical documentation, performance texts and plays, reports on performance abroad, and book reviews.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/performing_arts_journal/

Theatre Journal
Drawing contributions from noted practitioners and scholars, Theatre Journal features social and historical studies, production reviews, and theoretical inquiries that analyze dramatic texts and production

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_journal/

Journal of Ritual Studies
Founded in 1987 as the Journal of Ritual Studies deals exclusively with ritual in all its aspects. It provides a forum for debate about ritual’s role and meaning, seeking better definition for this rapidly growing field. It publishes articles about ritual in its various forms and contexts as well as correspondence debating its interpretation.

http://www.pitt.edu/~strather/journal.htm

Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly
Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly is the journal of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, and it is dedicated to exploring the question of what it is to be human. Believing that such an issue must be addressed both holistically and by the whole discipline, AH publishes contributions from all major fields of anthropology.

http://www.smcm.edu/sha/shapubs.htm

Current Anthropology
Current Anthropology is a transnational journal devoted to research on humankind, encompassing the full range of anthropological scholarship on human cultures and on the human and other primate species. Communicating across the subfields, the journal features papers in a wide variety of areas, including social, cultural, and physical anthropology as well as ethnology and ethnohistory, archaeology and prehistory, folklore, and linguistics

.http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA/home.html

Contemporary Theatre Review
Contemporary Theatre Review examines a wide variety of theatres, from new playwrights and devisors to theatres of movement, image and other forms of physical expression, from new acting methods to music theatre and multi-media production work, aiming to find new critical approaches to these art forms. It looks at trends in contemporary theatre, including the mainstream, and seeks to explore how theatrical vocabularies are shifting to accommodate and reflect the dynamics and/or tensions within global and local cultures.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10486801.asp

Theatre Topics
Devoted to issues of concern to practitioners, Theatre Topics focuses on performance studies, dramaturgy, and theatre pedagogy. It looks at a broad array of practical, performance-oriented subjects, with special attention to topics of current interest to the profession.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_topics/

Seagull Theatre Quarterly
Published in India, Seagull Theatre Quarterly is a national-level theatre journal for theatre workers throughout the country who act outside of the commercial mainstream. The journal provides access to significant happenings and publishes critique, theoretical analysis, reviews, and general information.

http://www.seagullindia.com/stq/homealt.html