The Lincoln Center Theater Review, a literary magazine published three times a year by Lincoln Center Theater, was founded in 1985 by playwright John Guare. "This journal has been brought into existence as a means of investigating Theater's unique power and the way in which it bears witness to our time. We hope to elicit intelligent, excited, diverse ideas and writing from a broad range of people....We are concerned with what makes Theater so important and nourishing to our lives."

Originally titled the New Theater Review, the journal published sporadically until 1993, when LCT Dramaturg Anne Cattaneo joined Guare as Executive Editor, and they enlisted Tamar Cohen as Art Director. Since 1993, the LCT Review has been edited by Andrea Chapin (1993-7), Josselyn Simpson (1997-2000), Jordan Pavlin (2000-2003) and Deborah Artman (2003-2006). In the 1997-8 theater season, the New Theater Review changed its name to the Lincoln Center Theater Review, and began appearing on newsstands and at bookstores around the country, as well as being available for subscription. The Review is sold in the lobbies of our theaters.

The Review is currently edited by Alexis Gargagliano, with Guare and Cattaneo continuing as Executive Editors. Art Direction and Design are by Tamar Cohen; David Leopold is Picture Editor and Carol Anderson is Copy Editor.

The plays on the stages of Lincoln Center Theater provide the inspiration for the Review's contributing writers, drawn from many fields, who question and reflect on the issues and ideas the plays generate in the larger world.