In early years yale/theatre’s editorial board included Michael Feingold, Ren Frutkin, Richard Gilman, and Gordon Rogoff. From 1973 to 1977 Rocco Landesman served as editor (with co-editor Robert Marx until 1976). In 1978 their successor, Joel Schechter, shortened the magazine’s name to Theater while expanding its purview and enlarging its page size and distribution. Under editor Erika Munk (1992-2003), Theater launched a major redesign and began regularly commissioning new writing from professional critics, journalists, and artists from around the world. The current editor, Tom Sellar, was appointed in 2003, introducing new writers and features such as photo essays and an expanded editorials section, and reinvigorating Theater’s commitment to new international voices and developments.
Theater’s groundbreaking special issues have included:
•Russian Theater: The Twenty-First Century
•Theater and Violence
•Witold Gombrowicz’s Century
•Theater and Social Change
•Polish Directors Now
•Theater in the New South Africa
•Performances Under Siege in Sarajevo
•Theater and Landscape
•Rethinking Meyerhold
•100 Years of Kurt Weill
•Contemporary Children’s Theater
•The Apocalyptic Century