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 ...

Sam Shepard, playwright, actor and an icon of understated cool, died last week at the age of 73 due to complications from Lou Gehrig's disease. Shepard grew up on his family's avocado farm in ...

It took 20 years before Sam Shepard’s 1980 play “True West” premiered on Broadway. In retrospect, it was a long time coming for a work considered by many a visceral depiction of sibling rivalry like ...

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 ...

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Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and what the record shows. In "Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard," ...

This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. Sam Shepard is a playwright whose life and work has always been linked to the American West. Much of his writing is about the west and many of his memorable ...