‘I have just read Contemporary Theatre Review from cover to cover. Sound scholarship, vigorous thinking, political impact with a renewed sense of the part theatre might play in the contemporary – all wrapped up in a volume light enough to hold in the studio and weighty enough to be talking about some time after the work is over. A welcome challenge to theatre-lite.'
Alan Read – Professor of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, Kings College, London

‘Contemporary Theatre Review is unique among scholarly theatre journals in its deft combination of primary and secondary sources on current and recent theatre practice. That is, its scrupulously-edited, peer-reviewed critical essays are juxtaposed with articles and interviews providing first-hand documentation of work by major contemporary practitioners of theatre and performance. These materials are reflected on further by the forum-like debates often conducted in the “Backpages” section of the journal (which, I confess, I often turn to first). But the most important thing of all about CTR is its insistently internationalist outlook: though rightly centred in its own, UK context, the journal's ongoing attention to non-Anglophone theatre practice, in continental Europe and beyond, provides a vital antidote to the Anglo-American bias of so much work in contemporary theatre and performance studies.'
Stephen Bottoms – Wole Soyinka Professor of Theatre, University of Leeds, UK

‘Contemporary Theatre Review is an invaluable resource for theatre artists and scholars. The journal's editorial and advisory board has remarkable depth. The breadth of their explorations, from the systems breeding radical new ideas in the German theatre, to the collaboration between Vienna's Projekt Theater with Mabou Mines, to the spate of recent plays about sex tourism in the Caribbean, to an exploration of where theatre is heading beyond postmodernism with a critical eye on whether critical analysis has kept pace, to an exploration of the cultural theory as embodied in the freak show, to a fresh look at what might be worthy in the Broadway musical, these are all evidence of a group of visionary thinkers taking delight in imagining a theatre that moves the whole culture forward.'
Matthew Maguire – Director, Theatre Program, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, Co-Artistic Director, Creation Production Company

‘Contemporary Theatre Review has now become the ‘must-read' theatre journal. With one of the sharpest teams of editors and advisors in the world, it is publishing some of the most insightful and internationally important contributions to theatre research and scholarship. It is a journal that has truly come of age – attracting the leading writers, engaging with the most current and pressing debates, and embracing a wonderful diversity, from its rich variety of writing formats (articles, documents, forum pieces, interviews and reviews) to the extensive range of theatre and performance practices it examines.'
Professor Steve Dixon – Pro-Vice Chancellor (Development), Brunel University