Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy
Call for Submissions
LMDA's journal Review is currently accepting submissions for its 2026 issue. Inquiries about future issues can be sent to publications@lmda.org.
This year’s deadline for submissions is October 6, 2025.
Current Issue
History and Archive
Review is the peer-reviewed journal of dramaturgy published annually by Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. The mission of the journal is to provide a venue for exploration of dramaturgy, and foster ongoing conversation about the work of the dramaturg and the literary manager and their relationship to all stages of theatre and performance-making. Submissions that explore dramaturgy in contexts beyond performance will also be considered. Review welcomes submissions by all writers regardless of professional affiliation. Inquiries to the editor are encouraged in advance of all submissions.
What is now Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy was for many years the LMDA Review and before that, for three early issues, Program Notes, and initially, simply, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas: Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1986. Over the years, Review has included essays, interviews, conference announcements and reports, manifestos, transcripts of speeches, and organizational business (elections, bylaws, initiatives, awards, and so forth). On some occasions, multiple issues appeared in a single year; in others, none at all. In 1996 and 1997, volume 8.1 appeared twice, an error in numbering that suggests, to some extent, the precarious history of its existence. Nevertheless, between 1986 and the present, a remarkable series of editors, associate editors, and authors published over fifty issues of Review with the assistance of several dedicated LMDA administrators. These issues offer an album of snapshots not only of the ongoing life of an organization committed to cultivating, developing, and promoting the fields of dramaturgy and literary management but also of the field itself.
This record of dramaturgical history in the Americas is housed at the University of Puget Sound’s Archives and Special Collections (Olivia Inglin, archivist).
Visit the Review archive at JSTOR.
Editors
- Allison Backus, Merrimack Repertory Theatre
- Sarah Johnson, PhD, Indiana University Bloomington