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 ...

American playwright Sam Shepard has passed away at the age of 73, according to his agent. The playwright was the author of over 40 plays, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play ...

Just as he had first done as a nineteen-year-old in 1962, when he went to visit his grandparents in Illinois, Sam Shepard was again crossing America on a train. Now, however, he was, in his words, “On ...

You can’t go home again — but you never can escape it, either. Such is the maddening paradox of family ties imprisoning the characters in the late Sam Shepard’s “Buried Child” at A Noise Within. With ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Sam Shepard, who left this world in 2017, was an American playwright and ...

At the close of the 1970s, I had a fierce crush on Sam Shepard, the eminent American playwright. Not only was he a serious intellectual for the plays he wrote, like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried ...

Sam Shepard, scribe of the angst-ridden American prairie, was the playwright who made Steppenwolf’s bones. In 1982, the theater company’s signature staging of his “True West” was the apotheosis of a ...

With “Fool for Love” playing at the Steppenwolf Theatre and now “A Lie of the Mind” at the thriving Raven Theatre, Chicago is having something of a Sam Shepard revival. The late, great bard of the ...

An exclusive excerpt from a new biography of Shepard reveals how bottomless booze, copious cocaine, a fling with Joni Mitchell, and a collision with an enigmatic superstar proved too much for the ...