“Theater is a big bust,” Sam Shepard told Newsweek in 1967, just as his star was rising in the off-Broadway world. “Nobody is taking big chances.” It was a bold statement for Shepard, who in the years ...

In “Fool for Love,” two ex-lovers reunite one fateful night to shed plenty of bad blood. But this thrilling play by the late playwright Sam Shepard is more than just any old spat between former lovers ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor and Pulitzer-winning playwright Sam Shepard has died from complications related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a representative ...

Sam Shepard was a true American original. A theater and film icon who lived life on a mythic scale, Shepard became an embodiment of the fierce independence and wild freedom of the American West.

PLAY TIME — Sam Shepard's plays are almost always a little weird. His people live in a world of their own, usually hostile and dysfunctional. And so it is with "Buried Child", Shepard's Pulitzer Prize ...

EXCLUSIVE: Production has wrapped on Ages of the Moon, the feature film adaptation of the play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard. Steve Buscemi (The Big Lebowski) stars in the ...

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Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American West, has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With “Fool for Love” playing at the Steppenwolf Theatre and now “A Lie of the Mind” at the thriving Raven Theatre, Chicago is ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The New Group production of Sam Shepard’s classic tragicomedy comes off as disjointed and self-consciously stagy. By Maya Phillips When a member of ...

A new biography of Sam Shepard, an EGOT-level talent as a playwright and performer, traces the career he forged after leaving the San Gabriel Valley without fully establishing the power of his work.