TheaterWeek was a national weekly magazine catering to artists and lovers of theater and cabaret.

[5] Columnists as Peter Filichia,[6] Alexis Greene, Charles Marowitz,[2] Ken Mandelbaum,[1] Davi Napoleon, Leslie (Hoban) Blake, and Michael Riedel were featured.

[11] The penultimate issue of TheaterWeek reportedly "infuriated a lot of Broadway people" when the publisher, Chuck Ortleb, ran an article for his own not-yet-completed play about the AIDS pandemic; Ortleb would use TheaterWeek and his other publications to "[lampoon] a new enemy and [publicize] a new theory, no matter how implausible".

Ortleb was reportedly using TheaterWeek to prop up his other two publications (The New York Native and Christopher Street).

Ortleb did allow staffers at the magazine a wide degree of freedom compared to his other publications, but Week was in decline near the end; the magazine's circulation fell below 20,000 at that time, and they had difficulty paying their bills and making payroll (some staff members recall not getting paid in over a year or rarely seeing a paycheck clear).