| Frequency: | Monthly |
| Category: | Theatre magazine |
| Publisher: | Friedrich Berlin Verlag GmbH |
| Firstdate: | Summer 1960 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Based: | Berlin |
| Language: | German |
| Website: | Theater heute |
| Issn: | 0040-5507 |
| Oclc: | 1773450 |
Theater heute (German: Theatre Today) is a German language monthly magazine with a special focus on theatre. The magazine is based in Berlin, Germany, and has been in circulation since 1960.
Theater heute was founded in 1960.[1] The first issue appeared in Summer of that year, and its founders were Erhard Friedrich und Henning Rischbieter.[2] [3] The magazine is published on a monthly basis by Friedrich Berlin Verlag GmbH based in Berlin.[1] It features articles on theater performances in Germany and in other countries.[4] [5] It is one of the German publications which extensively published reviews about the work by Samuel Beckett and also, the German translations of his plays.[6]
The cofounder of the magazine, Henning von Rischbieter, was also its founding editor-in-chief.[3] Peter von Becker also served as the editor-in-chief of Theater heute in the late 1980s.[7]