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, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, died on Thursday at his home in Kentucky. He was 73. Chris Boneau, a spokesperson for Shepard's family, tells CNN he died ...

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 ...

The late playwright Sam Shepard was more verbose than most in his written staging directions for his plays. For his Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1983 play “True West,” he specified in the script the color ...

Like happy endings? You’re not going to get one. Calling all play enthusiasts, dark comedy lovers, people with good taste and those looking to gasp and perhaps fall out of their seats! Through ...

Real food is rarely consumed on stage, and pre-show speeches don’t often include an explicit instruction not to walk through the performance area afterward. Both happen and may be related in Undermain ...

Throughout the 1970s and '80s, playwright Sam Shepard was American theater’s tough guy. He was close with punk poet Patti Smith, toured with Bob Dylan and earned an Oscar nod for his portrayal of ...

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 ...