Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sam Shepard is gone, but a new documentary "California Typewriter " captures the lauded playwright happy and in his element at work. In a clip released Tuesday by Gravitas Ventures, ...

Sam Shepard, paragon playwright of the American West, was born to roam. With a father who was an Army officer and sometime farmer and a mother who was a teacher, Shepard _ born in 1943, the oldest of ...

The 1976 track might epitomize Joni Mitchell’s prowess as a lyricist and composer, but it wouldn’t have become the song it did without playwright Sam Shepard. While both on the road for Bob Dylan’s ...

A former New York City director and producer now living in Southwest Virginia will pay tribute to one of the giants in the film industry. Glenn Laszlo “Bob” Weiss, a veteran of the theatre, will ...

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 ...

In 1974, Sam Shepard directed the debut of his play Geography of a Horse Dreamer at London’s Royal Court Theater. Irish actor Stephen Rea starred as Cody—a mysterious man, held captive in a hotel room ...