Volume 75, Issue 4, December 2023

To mark the occasion of Theatre Journal's 75th Anniversary in 2023, online editor Carla Neuss interviewed Rustom Bharucha, Jean Graham-Jones, Joseph Roach, Karen Shimakawa, Patricia Ybarra, and Harvey Young on their experiences publishing with Theatre Journal, the state of the field, and the role of scholarly journals today. Their illuminating conversations ran the gamut from redefining diversity to the collapse of public universities, from current tensions between scholarship and practice to hopes for the next seventy-five years of research and publishing. 

Below, you will find links to five video interview compilations, as well as the full text of the interviews (also available in PDF from Theatre Journal on ProjectMuse.) 

Theatre Journal 75th Anniversary Video Project 

• On Pedagogy
• On Diversity
• On Editing
• Hopes for the Future

Introduction and Full Interviews: 

• Four Notes on Six Conversations - Carla Neuss 

• Capaciousness, Access, and Pedagogy: A Conversation with Karen Shimakawa

• It’s Not the What, But the How: A Conversation with Patricia Ybarra

• The Long View—Recollections, Remembrances, and Recommendations for Theatre Journal: A Conversation with Joseph Roach

• On Editing, Paying it Forward, and Having Energy: A Conversation with Jean Graham-Jones, Former Editor

• The Once and Future TAPS: A Conversation with Harvey Young

• Virality, Plurality, and the Future of Discourse: A Conversation with Rustom Bharucha

Additional Materials

• From the Archive: Call for Papers for the December 2023 Special Issue: A Theatre Journal Anniversary