The Winter Paris Review defines where the theater stands today. It includes interviews with three of the world's best writers for the stage, all Pulitzer Prize winners, and showcases work from up-and-coming playwrights. David Mamet discusses dialogue and the mechanics of drama with the critic John Lahr, Sam Shepard is interviewed by George Plimpton and Mona Simpson, and Wendy Wasserstein recalls her apprenticeship spent with John Guare and Christopher Durang. A series of one-act plays from some of the leading emerging playwrights in America and Britain completes the theater issue.The Paris Review continues to provide the best in new writing. As William Kennedy said, "Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review".