Primer Acto

*Primer Acto*
Categories	Theater magazine
Frequency	Bi-monthly
Founded	1957
First issue	April 1957
Country	Spain
Based in	Madrid
Language	Spanish
Website	Primer Acto
ISSN	0032-8367
OCLC	825181

Primer Acto is a Spanish bi-monthly theater magazine based in Madrid, Spain. It has been in circulation since April 1957.

History and profile

Primer Acto was established in 1957,^[1] and the first issue appeared in April of that year.^[2] It was started as a successor to Teatro, which existed from 1952 to 1957.^[3] The magazine is published on a bi-monthly basis and covers Latin American and Spanish theatre.^[1] José Monleón is the director of the magazine, which is headquartered in Madrid.^[1] One of the earlier directors was José Monleon.^[4] José Luis Alonso is among the former editors.^[3] At the beginning of the 1960s the members of the editorial board included Arnold Wesker and Kenneth Tynan.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Primer Acto". Revistas Culturales. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
^ María Teresa García Fernández-Villa (2017). Estudio de Primer Acto, revista especializada en información teatral (PhD thesis) (in Spanish). Universidad Complutense de Madrid. p. 21. Archived from the original on 21 March 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c John London (1997). Reception and Renewal in Modern Spanish Theatre, 1939-1963. London: W. S. Maney & Son Ltd. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-901286-83-3.
^ Ferran Alberich; et al. (2015). "Film clubs, festivals, archives and magazines". In Jo Labanyi; Tatjana Pavlović (eds.). A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Malden, MA; Oxford: John Wiley & Sons. p. 457. ISBN 978-1-119-17013-6.