&sq=&lang=&file=File:After_Dark_1972-03.jpg) Actor Nicholas Cortland on the March 1972 cover | |
| Categories | Performing arts trades |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| First issue | May 1968 |
| Final issue | January 1983 |
| Company | Dance Magazine, Inc. Danad Publishing Company, Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
| ISSN | 0002-0702 |
After Dark was an entertainment magazine that covered theatre, cinema, stage plays, ballet, performance art, and various artists, including singers, actors and actresses, and dancers. First published in May 1968, the magazine succeeded Ballroom Dance Magazine.[1][2]
In the late 1970s Patrick Pacheco assumed the editorship from William Como and strove for a time to make the magazine a more serious critical monthly with a greater emphasis on quality writing, abandoning color printing inside and reducing photos to a few inches square. This was a reaction to William Como's "eye-candy" thrust, but sales were low and in 1981 Louis Miele replaced Pacheco at the helm and returned the magazine to the full-color format with plenty of skin on show.
It seemed however that the day was done for After Dark, perhaps because several newer magazines were doing a better and more explicitly targeted job of appealing to the magazine's original readership, and as such Miele's incarnation of After Dark folded after only a couple of years, this time permanently.
The first issue does not say "Volume 1, no. 1", it says "Volume 10, no. 1". This numbering continues through volume 13, no. 8, Dec. 1970, which is followed by volume 3, no. 9, Jan. 1971. (Volume 3 is thus actually the fourth volume.)[3]
- ^ Back issue retail site Archived August 21, 2006, at the Wayback Machine—intended as a reference for dates and images only. Some of the issue dates are incorrect; however, the listing correctly identifies Vol. 13 No. 01 as being published in May 1980. An online search in www.bookfinder.com returns September 1982 as the most recent issue available, and lists the May 1976 issue as the Tenth Anniversary Issue.
- ^ LC Online Catalog (2009). "After Dark". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 2012-07-13. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
- ^ Direct examination of the periodical.