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The Paris Review No. 142, Spring 1997

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THE THEATER ISSUE

Three Pulitzer Prize–winning playwrights on dialogue, method, and the dramatic moment: interviews with David Mamet, Sam Shepard, and Wendy Wasserstein.

Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim sings the praises of musical theater; John Simon offers the critic’s view.

Plays by Martin McDonagh and Doug Wright.

Table of Contents

Interview

David Mamet, The Art of Theater No. 11  Full Text

Sam Shepard, The Art of Theater No. 12  Full Text

John Simon, The Art of Criticism No. 4  Full Text

Stephen Sondheim, The Art of the Musical  Full Text

Wendy Wasserstein, The Art of Theater No. 13  Full Text

Poetry

Mary Jo Bang, Four Poems

Shelley A. Berger, Archaeology of a Photo. 1939. Baranowicz. The Ghost

Michael Burns, Two Poems

Anne Carson, TV Men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2)

Edward Hirsch, The Lectures on Love

Stephen McLeod, Two Poems

John Stephen Reed, Two Poems

Tony Sanders, Two Poems

Richard Shelton, Miranda of the Sorrows

Elizabeth Stein, Two Poems

Eleanor Ross Taylor, Three Poems

Robert Thomas, Of the White Hands

Frederick Tibbetts, Two Poems

Wyatt Townley, The Afterlives of Trees

Susan Wood, Two Poems

Feature

Sebastian Barry, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question IV: On Theater

Israel Horovitz, A Remembrance of Samuel Beckett

Karl Kirchwey, Alcestis: A Bedroom Comedy

Martin McDonagh, The Cripple of Inishmaan

Doug Wright, Lot 13: The Bone Violin

Art

Robert Wilson, The Black Rider