It is always inappropriate to define the editorial line of a journal. A journal also lives on the unexpected, on essays proposed from the outside, on submissions that have nothing to do with a planning. However, every journal has its particular taste. “Teatro e Storia” has a propensity for papers that try, however partially and imperfectly, to enlighten new problems, to indicate new points of view, to pose unexpected questions, to weave the perspectives of different disciplines, rather than fill the containers of knowledge; with the awareness of the existence of a theatre without a name – to be mostly identified with the actor’s work, even in the case of famous actors –, and that our primary task is to foster its respect and future existence; with the conviction that theatre survives itself only when it takes roots and it is therefore necessary to hunt for the different systems it takes roots in, in memories and in practice. “Teatro e Storia” is not a journal focused on current events but it includes also papers about the performances and theatre life of our times, as long as they can speak in the same way in which the essays about the past have to speak: with attention to connections, with the desire to pose new problems in place of established truths. “Teatro e Storia” does not represent a school but an environment. Our editorial board has always found connection around situations of fertile discussion, that undermined accepted convictions and determined new directions in the research field. After “Biblioteca Teatrale”, “Teatro e Storia” is the longest standing Italian journal for theatre studies. Longevity is a means to evaluate the tradition of a publication in its development. It brings us to ask questions about the future.