Jim Houghton on American new writing

NEW YORK SPECIAL Actor, playwright and screenwriter Stephen Adly Guirgis talks to the British Theatre Guide's Philip Fisher in a Hell's Kitchen diner.

INTERVIEW: CHRISTOPHER SHINN The playwright discusses his latest play, Dying City, at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs - about America, Iraq and New York now - with Aleks Sierz.

NEW YORK SPECIAL The actor Anthony Chisolm talks about his role in Gem of the Ocean (Walter Kerr, NYC), the ninth play in August Wilson's cycle about African-American history. Philip Fisher quizzes.

INTERVIEW: NEIL LABUTE The top American playwright and director talks to Philip Fisher about his controversial new play, Fat Pig (Trafalgar Studios), his career in film, the joys and perils of New York theatre, and his upcoming Reasons To Be Pretty o...