PRESS RELEASE PUBLICATION PLANS ANNOUNCED FOR FIRST ONLINE THEATRE JOURNAL THEATRE.PERSPECTIVES.INTERNATIONAL (T.P.I) Boulder, CO USA -- Publication plans were announced today for the first theatre journal to be completely assembled and delivered electronically. The new quarterly will be called THEATRE.PERSPECTIVES.INTERNATIONAL, and will provide international theatre scholars and practitioners with a source of information on theatre history, theory, criticism, and dramaturgy that can be accessed by computer with the ease and economy of a simple telephone call. With a few computer keystrokes, T.P.I will be available for downloading onto computer storage media for archiving, for transfer directly into other documents, or for printing. The unique advantages of the electronic medium will allow for fast and simple article submission procedures, and it is anticipated that when immediacy of access is combined with the international scope of communications already extant through Internet, T.P.I will be able to provide a source of reviews of worldwide theatre productions that will be unmatched for timeliness. T.P.I will be a juried publication aiming for the highest standards of academic quality. THEATRE.PERSPECTIVES.INTERNATIONAL will be edited by two doctoral students at the University of Colorado - Boulder. David Reifsnyder holds an M.A. in theatre from Penn State University with a B.A. from Wheaton College. He has experience as an actor, director and professional company manager with an academic specialization in dramatic theory and criticism. E. James Zeiger is a member of Actors' Equity Association who has extensive production experience as an actor, director, stage-manager, and designer. His academic specialty is American theatre history. Mr. Zeiger holds an M.A. in theatre from the University of Colorado with a B.A. from the University of Missouri - Kansas City. The Board of Advisors of THEATRE.PERSPECTIVES.INTERNATIONAL is chaired by Dr. James Symons, currently chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Colorado - Boulder and past president of ATHE. The advisory committee will also include Dr. Carole Brandt, chair of the Department of Theatre at Penn State University and current president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and Richard Devin, the producing artistic director of the Colorado Shakespeare Fesitval. Margery Fernald, a practicing attorney who is also a doctoral candidate in theatre at C.U. will serve as legal counsel. Richard Rinkelstein, a well-known set designer, will be the publisher of T.P.I and will make the journal available to readers via the facilities of his computer bulletin board service, THEATRELYNX. THEATRELYNX has served the theatre community on an ever-expanding basis since October of 1991. Mr. Finkelstein will be responsible for all technical matters related to the electronic assembly and distribution of the journal. In addition to the journal itself, the editors of T.P.I will assemble a database of performance reviews from around the world that will afford readers instant access to information about productions they may be researching or planning to attend. Those reviews judged to meet the highest academic and schloarly standards will be featured in subsequent issues of T.P.I. An e-mailbox will also be established within THEATRELYNX to facilitate communications with the staff of T.P.I. The inaugural edition of THEATRE.PERSPECTIVES.INTERNATIONAL is planned for release on March 31, 1994 with the second issue to be dated June 30. See the following statement of editorial purpose for further information regarding submissions. The publication's initial call for papers will be issued later this month. THEATRE.PERSPECTIVES.INTERNATIONAL Statement of Editorial Purpose and Requirements for Submission EDITORIAL PURPOSE: To provide international theatre scholars and practitioners with a quarterly journal devoted to history, theory, criticism, reviews and dramaturgy that takes advantage of the immediacy of assembly and economy of delivery made possible by computer technology. The journal will contain articles of high academic quality usually focussing upon a central theme or related group of topics. The journal's secondary purposes include functioning as a central electronic source for dramaturgical and bibliographic information and for timely reviews of international theatrical productions. SPECIAL FEATURES: Editorials, bibliographies, play reviews, interviews, and transcriptions of discussions conducted using the unique capabilities of a worldwide computer network. The scope of subject matter to be kept as open-ended as possible so as to embrace adjacent areas of interest when appropriate, including discussions of the entire range of theatrical praxis, i.e. acting/directing methodology and design theory and criticism. INTENDED AUDIENCE: Theatre scholars and professional practitioners worldwide. SUBMISSIONS: Articles may only be submitted as eletronic text, using one of three methods: 1. Upload via the THEATRELYNX BBS at the University of Colorado - Boulder (303-492-4782) after January 24, 1994. New Users wishing information may log in with the command <tpi> or may follow the instructions to become a regular user of THEATRELYNX. Initial questions should be directed to the sysop, Richard Finkelstein. 2. Upload via e-mail to the editors: David Reifsnyder ([log in to unmask]) or Jim Zeiger ([log in to unmask]). This option is currently online and operating. 3. Mail submissions on floppy disc (any format, Mac or PC): THEATRE.PERSPECTIVES.INTERNATIONAL Department of Theatre and Dance Campus Box 261 University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0261 USA Voice: 303-492-7355 Floppy discs will not be returned. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Free of charge. Available by download through THEATRELYNX. Technical questions should be directed to the sysop, Richard Finkelstein. Delivery via telnet and gopher systems is expected to be available shortly. STYLE REQUIREMENTS: Articles should conform to the standards established by the Modern Language Association Handbook for Writers of Research Papers using parenthetical notation with an accompanying Works Cited, or endnotes with the note references enclosed in parenthesis. Due to the unique requirements of the electronic medium, footnotes will not be accepted. Preferred upload format is ASCII, but any Mac or PC format may be used.