A new biography of Sam Shepard, an EGOT-level talent as a playwright and performer, traces the career he forged after leaving ...
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, ...
Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...