• Richard Schechner edited The Drama Review (formerly the Tulane Drama Review) from 1962—1969; and again from 1986—present
• Beginning in 2007, the bi-annual TDR/China appeared, published by the Richard Schechner Center for Performance Studies at the Shanghai Theatre Academy

Books

• Public Domain (1968)
• Environmental Theater (1973)
• Theatres, Spaces, and Environments (1975 with Jerry Rojo and Brooks McNamara)
• Essays on Performance Theory (1976)
• The End of Humanism (1981)
• From the Ramlila to the Avantgarde (1983)
• Between Theater and Anthropology (1985)
• The Engleburt Stories (1987, with Samuel MacIntosh Schechner)
• The Future of Ritual (1993)
• Performance Theory (a revised version of Essays on Performance Theory, 1988, revised again, 2004)
• Performance Studies...An Introduction (2002, revised second edition 2006)
• Over, Under, and Around (2004)

Schechner's books/collections of his writings have been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Parsi, Italian, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Hungarian, and Serbo-Croatian

Edited works

• Dionysus in 69 (1970)
• Ritual, Play, and Performance (1976, with Mady Schuman)
• By Means of Performance (1990, with Willa Appel)
• The Grotowski Sourcebook (1997, with Lisa Wolford).

In March 2005, the Richard Schechner Center for Performance Studies was inaugurated as part of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, where Schechner is an Honorary Professor. With The Performance Group Schechner directed many productions including Dionysus in 69 based on Euripides' The Bacchae (1968), Makbeth based on Shakespeare's Macbeth (1969), Commune group devised piece (1970), Sam Shepard's The Tooth of Crime (1972), Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children (1975), David Gaard's The Marilyn Project (1975), Seneca's Oedipus (1977), Terry Curtis Fox's Cops (1978), and Jean Genet's The Balcony (1979). With East Coast Artists, Schechner has directed Faust/gastronome (1993), Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters (1995), William Shakespeare's Hamlet (1999), and Schechner's and Saviana Stanescu's YokastaS (2003, YokastaS Redux 2005), Lian Amaris's Swimming to Spalding (2009). Schechner has also directed in Asia and Africa: Anton Chekhov's Cherry ka Baghicha (1983 in Hindi) in New Delhi, Sun Huizhu's Mingri Jiuyao Chu Shan (1989 in Shanghai in Mandarin) August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1992) at the Grahamstown Festival, South Africa, Aeschylus's The Oresteia (1995 in Taipei in Mandarin), and Shakespeare's Hamlet (2007 in Shanghai and 2009 in Wroclaw, Poland, in Mandarin).

While in New Orleans from 1960—67, Schechner was a producing director with John O'Neal and Gilbert Moses of the Free Southern Theatre (1963—65) and a founding director with Franklin Adams and Paul Epstein of the New Orleans Group (1964—67). Schechner is general editor of the Worlds of Performance series published by Routledge and co-editor with Carol Martin of the Enactment series published by Seagull Press.