The Theatre Times (TTT) is an online theatre portal that launched in November 2016.
The Theatre Times has thirty-two thematic sections, more than 140 Regional Managing Editors, and over sixty media partners around the world.BC3 Library: Fine Arts: Theater and Performing Arts Web Resources, retrieved on July 21, 2025 It covers theatre in more than 90 countries, with performance reviews and interviews, as well as essays and news stories. It has covered stories about theatre and artificial intelligence, theatre and decolonization, the aesthetics of truth, LGBTQ theatre, puppetry, dystopian drama, and war/post-war productions, for example in Tehran, Ukraine, or Syria.
The Theatre Times hosts Performap, a digital map of global theatre and performance festivals, which was funded through Yale Digital Humanities Lab and LMDA Innovation Grant,European Theatre Convention: The Theatre Times: Towards Transnational Digital Infrastructure, January 24, 2024 and the International Online Theatre Festival (IOTF), an annual or bi-annual theatre streaming event. Since 2019, The Theatre Times and Digital Theatre+ have collaborated on the IOTF.Digital Theatre, The Theatre Times: Towards a New Model of Intercultural Exchange, February 20, 2024. In 2023, IOTF partnered with the European Theatre Convention and Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift (STAGES).STAGES, "Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift (STAGES)," 2023.
In 2017, A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast called The Theatre Times a "heroic project".A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast, "Episode 010," January 24, 2017. Theatre Journal called it "the globally influential."Liu, Sissi, et al. "Digital Scholarship Roundtable: The State of the Field." Theatre Journal, vol. 76 no. 2, 2024, p. E-17-E-30, p. E-19. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tj.2024.a932164. A review at OnStageBlog called IOTF "the kaleidoscope and catalyst for global change," stating:
The fervor, innovation, and conversations exhibited through the festival's global works should act as a beacon as we navigate forward; storytelling has and always will be a catalyst for community catharsis no matter the variance in subject matter or location. By bringing together different voices and perspectives in a digital sphere, The International Online Theatre Festival is a paradigm example of how the theatre community worldwide should and can continue using virtual platforms, streaming, archives, and sharing to foster discussion, magnification, and empathy across emotional and physical borders in a twenty-first-century world. – Natalie Rine, OnStageBlogRine, Natalie. "Review: The International Online Theatre Festival: A Kaleidoscope and Catalyst for Global Change," OnStageBlog.com, 10 June 2020.
Since 2018, The Theatre Times has been led by its Executive Directors Magda Romanska and Kasia Lech. The former is Professor of Theatre at Emerson College in Boston, MA, and Researcher at metaLAB at Harvard University. The latter is Associate Professor of Global Performance History at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and an Affiliate at metaLAB.
Awards 2018 Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in DramaturgyElliott Hayes Award: Previous Recipients, retrieved on July 20, 2025 2021 The Culture Online International Award for “Best Online Project” for the International Online Theatre Festival (Second Place). 2024 ATHE-ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the American Society for Theatre Research "TheTheatreTimes.com wins ATHE-ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship.", Amsterdam School of Historical Studies, July 24, 2024. 2025 LIT Advertising Awards – Gold Medal in the category Website/EntertainmentThe Theatre Times Digital Portal wins the LIT Advertising Awards 2025, retrieved July 29, 2025 2025 MUSE Creative Award – Silver Winner in the Digital Publication Category 2025 The Webby Honoree in the Cultural Blog/Website category in the 29th Annual Webby Awards (chosen from nearly 13,000 entries).
External links The Theatre Times Performap.com IOTF: The International Online Theatre Festival "Top 20 Theatre Magazines in 2025." Feedspot Broadway Stars Muck Rack "Plan tegorocznego festiwalu Between Pomiędzy w globalnym portalu The Theatre Times oraz czasopiśmie Didaskalia". Gdańsk University, Poland "TheTheatreTimes.com Launches the Spotlight on Poland." International Federation for Theatre Research, March 27, 2018. Sceana.ro. "TheTheatreTimes.com and Digital Theatre+ are teaming up to launch IOTF: The International Online Theatre Festival", March 3, 2019. International Online Theatre Festival 2023, metaLAB International Online Theatre Festival 2023, Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation
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