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...little magazines"-a select and often little-read group of literary periodicals-tend to remain small because they appeal to limited audiences. Yet one of the newer little magazines shows promise of surprising growth. It is the eight-year-old Tulane Drama Review, in which Editor Richard Schechner, a Tulane University Ph.D., combines a scholar's skill with the insight and pugnacity of a first-rate journalist. Since taking over two years ago, he has increased the stature of T.D.R. enough that the American National Theater and Academy last month switched its group subscription from Show to T.D.R. ANTA...
Hard News. Schechner has won such praise by putting into his magazine something most literary editors overlook-hard news. When Julian Beck and his wife Judith Malina, the founders of Manhattan's Living Theater, barricaded themselves in their theater to ward off eviction, he interviewed them through a megaphone. He keeps in touch with European theater on both sides of the Curtain. He prints a previously unpublished play in each issue; so far, each of the plays has been produced within a few months of its T.D.R. debut. Though Tulane University provides a New Orleans office and financial...